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Business Insider’s Oran departs for Brunswick

Olivia Oran

Olivia Oran, executive editor of content growth at Business Insider, has left to become a director at communications firm Brunswick.

She was also director of content strategy, director of subscription strategy and growth, and senior finance editor, among other positions.

Prior to joining Business Insider in April 2018, she spent six years at Reuters where she covered large Wall Street banks, as well as mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance among healthcare, consumer, and retail companies. Before that, covered technology news at TheStreet and Mergermarket.

Oran began her career as an investment banker at JPMorgan working with technology and media companies.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell 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.

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