Edwards Jim

Edwards Jim

founding editor of Business Insider UK

He has previously been managing editor at Adweek, an advertising columnist at CBS Interactive, and a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Business School. His work has appeared in Slate, Salon, MTV, The Nation and AOL.

His investigative journalism has changed the law in the First Circuit Court of Appeals (U.S. v. Kravetz), the Third Circuit Court of Appeals (North Jersey Media v. Ashcroft), New Jersey (In Re El-Atriss), and New York (Mosallem v. Berenson).

The U.S. Supreme Court cited his work on the death penalty in the concurrence to Baze v. Rees, on the issue of whether lethal injection is cruel or unusual.

He won the Neal award for business journalism in 20o5 for a series of articles on bribes and kickbacks in the advertising business.