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Insider hires Melton as senior tech editor

Monica Melton

Monica Melton has joined Insider as senior tech editor.

She previously served as the managing editor of The Plug Insights, and covered innovation, technology, and venture capital at Forbes. She has also covered politics at Politico, and entertainment for Time Out New York.

She studied at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Washington, and brings expertise to the intersection of technology, finance, race, and entrepreneurship.

Melton will help run Insider’s growing Big Tech news team, which covers the world’s most powerful companies, entrepreneurs and technologies.

“Our team has doubled in size since the summer, so I’m grateful such a talented editor is joining to help lead this group,” said Alistair Barr, deputy technology editor at Insider. “We will continue to recruit top journalists to cover beats including YouTube, Apple, and the tech supply chain.”

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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