Business Insider hires Melendez for video team

Clarisa Melendez

Clarisa Melendez has joined Business Insider as an associate audience engagement producer for video after a fellowship.

Previously, Melendez worked at NBC News producing video and at Telemundo Network, where she produced Spanish-language content, managed field production, and contributed digital coverage for live events.

Melendez holds a master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

She will report to Liz Rowley.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.