Articles about Newsela

Built In Staff

Updated on April 30, 2024

These media companies in NYC are using tech to tell new stories in new ways.

Alyssa Schroer

Updated on April 25, 2024

These companies offer a range of top employee benefits, such as unlimited PTO, sabbaticals and learning and development stipends.

Jeff Rumage

Updated on April 09, 2024

Educators have plenty of transferable skills for other industries.

Mae Rice

Updated on April 01, 2024

These companies are shaping the industry, tackling questions of pedagogy and business one day at a time.

As New York continues to grow its edtech hub, there are a number of startups using technology to change the way teachers teach and students learn. We've rounded up several NYC-based edtech startups that are revolutionizing technology in the classroom.

Built In Staff

Updated on February 06, 2023

Our industry-leading technology has identified the best remote-first employers across the country.

Brigid Hogan

Updated on January 11, 2023

Newsela, Yext and adMarketplace share a peek into the future for 2023 growth.

From fast-growing startups to established firms with hefty benefits, here’s a rundown of NYC’s most noteworthy people-first organizations to watch in the season ahead.

These rapidly expanding New York companies are looking for people who step up to own important projects.

In the world of engineering, a full-stack developer can be considered a jack of all trades, jumping into any part of the stack at any given time. As a result, it’s important for the individual in a full-stack developer role to harbor a solid knowledge base of the product in its entirety.

Leveraging a variety of technical skills to bring about impactful solutions is all in a day’s work.

It’s a job seekers market right now, which means you have no excuse not to go out and find your dream role.

Tyler Holmes

Updated on August 25, 2021

Friendly competition is great motivation, but sales teams working together is where true success comes into play.

This funding caps off a year of tremendous growth for Newsela, and will be used to further develop its catalog of digital-first educational content. The company is also hiring, with more than 60 open tech positions at is NYC HQ.

Listening to employees via regular feedback helped these companies adapt their perks and build new resources for this current remote world.

We talked to three designers at local tech startups to see what challenges and requirements set them apart from other companies.

Diversity in the workplace is a tough topic, but an important one — and the reasoning goes far beyond basic ethics.

Built In NYC has carefully selected 50 young companies (all less than five years old) that we believe will make a big splash over the next 12 months. Some are hiring and some are not, but all are worth keeping an eye on.

Whether it’s churning out ultra-shareable and GIF-heavy listicles, or building out different verticals of online editorial brands, digital media companies are continuously shaking up old-school journalism. Here are nine NYC media startups to keep an eye on.

FEBRUARY 2016: Feeling like your career needs a little love this month? For those looking to change things up in February, here are 10 growing New York tech companies hiring right now.

JUNE 2016: Tired of doing the same old thing in the same old office? New York City is home to some of the world's coolest tech companies, and a lot of them are hiring this summer. Here are 7 tech companies that are spending their summers looking for new talent.

Carefully thought-out perks are a great way for a company to show they care about their employees. Here are five NYC tech companies doing it right.

A toxic, unhealthy work environment will wear off on you, no matter how hard you fight back. These eight NYC tech companies take a positive, healthy office culture seriously.

Newsela, the edtech company that leverages daily news to help students build their reading comprehension skills, launched an app for iOS devices. As Newsela services students from grades 2-12, and younger generations are more connected than ever, the media startup’s app extension makes sense.