Business Insider reporter Hernbroth is departing

Megan Hernbroth, who covered venture capital, Silicon Valley and startups for Business Insider, is leaving.

She has been at the publication for three years.

Hernbroth has worked as a communications manager at ThirdLove and also held the same post at National Parks Conservation Association. Before that, she was a strategic communications manager at Coinbase.

Hernbroth has also worked as an account executive at The OutCast Agency and as an engineering communications intern at Facebook. She also served as public relations intern at The Hoffman Agency and as an event marketing intern at Cars.com.

In addition, she also held the posts of public relations team member and integrated marketing and editorial intern at Appoet and CheekyChicago.com, respectively.

Hernbroth holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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.