Business Insider hires Russolillo as chief news editor

I’m excited to announce that Steve Russolillo will be joining Business Insider in a new role, as Chief News Editor.

Steve is an accomplished, enterprising, and versatile journalist who has worked for most of the last 17 years at The Wall Street Journal.

As a reporter and writer in New York, he covered markets, wrote one of the Journal’s first blogs and authored the daily Ahead of the Tape column, which set the agenda on business and financial news.

In 2017, Steve moved to Hong Kong to cover finance and cryptocurrency. He created the Journal’s first original and award-winning documentary, WSJCoin, taking the Journal’s audience through the ups and downs of creating a new digital currency to help demystify the early world of crypto.

Moving back to New York during the pandemic, he worked with me as a strategy editor, deftly using analytics to help ensure our coverage had the greatest impact.

More recently Steve helped build and then lead the Journal’s breaking news desk—a team of reporters, editors and photo journalists tasked with dominating the most important stories of the day across coverage areas.

Steve earned an MBA in finance, worked at Goldman Sachs and taught writing courses at New York University and Baruch College. An avid runner, Steve has completed seven marathons, including a memorable New York City race months after he donated a kidney to his mother-in-law, which he chronicled for the Journal.

Steve has impeccable news judgment, a great touch in edits, and an innovative spirit. As a manager and editor, he inspires journalists to reach far to get the story and deliver distinguishing work.

As Chief News Editor, he will oversee the money, innovation, trending, tech, and international teams.

I’m excited to work closely with Steve and the leaders and staff of these teams to reach even greater journalistic heights for Business Insider.

Steve will be joining us Jan. 6.