Insider hires Ridley as senior editor for business team

Louise Ridley

Insider has hired Louise Ridley as a senior editor on the UK business team.

She is currently on maternity leave and will join Insider as a senior editor in April 2022. Ridley was previously a senior journalist at BBC Newsbeat.

She has also worked at special projects editor at HuffPost UK and news editor for longform and special projects for BuzzFeed UK, and worked at publications including BBC Focus magazine, the Evening Standard and Campaign magazine.

At BBC Newsbeat, the BBC’s flagship brand for young people, Ridley commissioned features, long reads and radio pieces on the BBC News website, Radio 1, 1Xtra and BBC Asian Network, reaching 14 million people a week, primarily aged 16-24.

She ran cross-platform projects on topics including young people’s Covid grief, how to survive a pandemic as a young entrepreneur and how to cope with mental health problems as a young person at work – reported on live radio from a Salford building site.

She managed Newsbeat’s forward planning operation and managed collaborations with teams like Panorama, BBC Business, 5Live and BBC Three.

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.