Business Insider’s Silman departing to freelance

Business Insider senior features reporter Anna Silman is leaving to freelance.

She spent five years as a senior writer at The Cut at New York Magazine, where she was a generalist writing features, profiles, and essays on a wide variety of topics including culture, lifestyle, media, health, identity, and social behavior.

She spent four months developing NY Mag’s “Diary of a Hospital” series profiling frontline workers through COVID’s peak, and she published numerous features exploring the social dynamics of the pandemic.

She has also worked on audio stories for The Cut’s podcasts with Gimlet and Vox Media, including reporting, writing, and coproducing a feature on women in the far-right movement.

Silman is a graduate of McGill University and New York 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.