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Insider hires Davis as director of business news

Bradley Davis

Bradley Davis has joined Insider as the director of business news.

At Business Insider, he will lead a team of editors and reporters who produce breaking news, analysis and originally reported consumer-focused stories across the organization’s business verticals, including tech, retail, transportation, media, strategy and advertising.

Davis most recently was the deputy business editor at the New York Post. Previously, he led the business and local government teams at the Warren Buffett-owned Omaha World-Herald, where his team won SABEW’s General Excellence award in 2016.

He also has been an editor at Bloomberg News and before that was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, where he last was digital editor for markets and finance. While at the Journal, he also wrote occasional columns for sister publication Barron’s.

Originally from Omaha, Davis is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; he has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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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