Business Insider to begin search for new editor in chief

Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday:

Team,
As Nich has shared, after 16 years at Business Insider and an extraordinary 7 years as our Editor-in-Chief, he will transition to Editor-at-Large this summer.
Nich is one of the most creative and innovative leaders in journalism. He has shaped so much of what Business Insider has become and I want to thank him for his tremendous contributions. Under his leadership, Business Insider became a Pulitzer Prize, National Magazine Award, Emmy, Murrow, Webby, and SABEW-winning global news organization with nearly 500 journalists reaching hundreds of millions of readers and viewers each month.
We’re kicking off a search for our next Editor-in-Chief and will share more in the coming weeks and months, including many toasts to Nich!
Barbara
Barbara Peng
CEO

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.