Business Insider South Africa to close

Business Insider South Africa announced that it will close by the end of the month.

A story on BizCommunity states, “‘Business Insider SA launched in February 2018 as a partnership between what was then known as Business Insider, a German-owned American-headquartered outlet that pioneered a new way of online publishing, and News24, part of the Media24 group,’ said the publication.

“According to the publication its licensing agreement comes to an end with News24 on 28 February.

“‘Now Insider has decided not to renew the licensing agreement that created this publication, which comes to the end of its five-year term this month,’ said the publication.”

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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.