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Inc. promotes Contreras to staff writer

Brian Contreras

Inc. magazine has promoted Brian Contreras to staff writer covering money and finance stories, from angel investors to initial public offerings.

He joined Inc. in 2024 and initially covered artificial intelligence, creators and social media, and tech startups.

He previously was at the Los Angeles Times where he was the Times’ first-ever artificial intelligence beat reporter. Prior to that, he wrote about the future of entertainment and social media. His piece “How Instagram and TikTok prey on pregnant women’s worst fears” took second place at the Southern California Journalism Awards.

His reporting work has also appeared in the Seattle Times and San Antonio Express-News.

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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