Business Insider hires Rafieyan as a senior reporter

Darius Rafieyan

Business Insider has hired Darius Rafieyan as a senior reporter covering venture capital and startups.

Rafieyan joined NPR in 2017 as the founding producer of “The Indicator from Planet Money”. He has produced stories about infectious disease outbreaks, the world’s greatest air salesman, and the economics of Tinder.

Before joining NPR, he was a producer at Bloomberg and Al Jazeera English. Rafieyan also reported from Iran for The Guardian’s Tehran bureau blog.

He is a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.