Insider reporter Nguyen among those laid off

Britney Nguyen

Business Insider tech reporter Britney Nguyen was among those laid off from the site earlier this week.

Nguyen covered careers and people in consulting, finance, tech, fintech, and startups. Her stories aim to help people find jobs and navigate their careers, and to highlight people in different industries who built their own businesses and dream careers.

She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021 with degrees in journalism and contemporary European studies.

While in school, she worked at The Daily Tar Heel and interned at The News Reporter.

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.