Business Insider reporter Bhattacharya departs

Shriya Bhattacharya

Shriya Bhattacharya, a reporter at Business Insider, has left the news organization for a new opportunity.

She reported on the creator economy from a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens at Business Insider. She wrote about how the biggest social-media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat can be more inclusive, and regularly profiled BIPOC influencers and startup founders on how they’re building lucrative businesses.

Bhattacharya has written for Teen Vogue, Prism, and Ms. Magazine. Before pursuing journalism, she worked for the United Nations Foundation’s global sexual and reproductive health initiative in Washington.

She graduated magna cum laude from Agnes Scott College with a B.A. in international relations and dance.

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.