Business Insider’s Carlson to leave this summer

Nicholas Carlson

Business Insider editor in chief Nicholas Carlson plans to leave this summer, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor.

Tani reports, “Carlson has been the global editor-in-chief of the digital news outlet since 2017.

“But there have been moments of doubt between the current parent company and Carlson’s leadership. Semafor reported last week that Mathias Döpfner, CEO of BI parent Axel Springer, considered firing Carlson during the backlash to the publication’s article about billionaire businessman Bill Ackman’s wife’s academic writing, which BI reported contained instances of plagiarism. Carlson did not respond to a request for comment.”

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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.