Business Insider lays off executive editor Ariel Schwartz

Ariel Schwartz

Business Insider executive editor Ariel Schwartz is among the layoffs this week.

She oversaw health, parenting, essays, and features in the life section. She previously was deputy editor of the innovation section.

Previously, Schwartz was the senior editor of Co.Exist, Fast Company’s spinoff site focusing on world-changing innovation. She has also contributed to Popular Science, SF Weekly, Modern Farmer, and Inhabitat, among other publications.

Schwartz is a graduate of Vassar College.

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.