Business Insider’s Russell to cover AI’s impact on professional services

Business Insider senior tech reporter Melia Russell is moving to a new beat to cover how artificial intelligence is transforming legal and professional services.

She has been writing news and features about startups and venture capital, focused on growth-stage companies, the funding deals that investors are clamoring to get into, and corporate culture.

Her work has uncovered the mysterious disappearance of a Utah tech entrepreneur, detailed the falling out of cofounders at Modern Health, and delved into the secret club that prepares young CEOs to take over the world. She takes readers inside the workplaces of high-flying startups such as Spring Health, Coinbase, Expensify, and Clubhouse.

She started as an intern at Business Insider in 2013. After five years, Russell joined the business desk at the San Francisco Chronicle and covered the region’s talent wars, tech culture, and work immigration. She returned to Insider in 2019.

She has degrees from Syracuse University in magazine journalism and information management and technology.

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.