Omar Sacirbey joined Benzinga as its Startups Investing Editor in September 2025. Prior to Benzinga he spent nearly 10 years at Marijuana Business Daily as a writer and editor, winning two Tabbie Awards (2021 and 2023) from the Trade Association of Business Publications International. Before that he was a correspondent for the Religion News Service for 10 years, and won third pace in the American Academy of Religion’s Best Newswriting Contest in 2006. His work has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Forbes and other publications. He graduated from Columbia Journalism School in 1997 and before that he was a diplomat for the Foreign Ministry of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
