Canales departs Business Insider for Morning Brew

Katie Canales

Business Insider reporter Katie Canales is leaving the news organization to join Morning Brew, where she will write for its new cryptocurrency newsletter.

Canales is a tech and crypto reporter based in Austin, Texas. She joined Insider in 2018 and focuses heavily on NFTs, blockchain technology, major crypto players, and the booming Web3 space.

She has also covered the many happenings in the tech industry, from content moderation and data privacy to antitrust issues and regulation.

Canales graduated from Texas A&M University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She began her time at Insider in the company’s San Francisco office before moving home to Texas in 2021.

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.