Lahut leaving Insider for The Daily Beast

Jake Lahut

Jake Lahut, a politics reporter at Insider, is leaving to becoming a campaign reporter for The Daily Beast.

In the past, he worked as a political reporter at The Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire.

Previously, Lahut was a breaking news reporter at The Daily Gazette. He also held the posts of breaking news intern and White House intern at Politico. Before that, he was with The Wesleyan Argus working as editor-in-chief.

Lahut also served as a metro intern at Times Union and held the post of research assistant at The New Yorker. Additionally, he has also worked as an opinion editor, translator and graduate teaching assistant.

Lahut holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University.

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.