Deputy editor Tracer leaving Business Insider

Zach Tracer

Zach Tracer, who became deputy editor of Business Insider’s investigations team earlier this month, is among the layoffs.

He previously was deputy editor for health care coverage.

He joined Business Insider in 2018. Previously, he was a health care reporter at Bloomberg News.

Tracer has written about how drug prices are set, the insurers who are profiting off Obamacare, and the big firms changing health care to help their workers.

Tracer is a Duke University graduate.

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.