Renbarger joining Newcomer to cover startups and VCs

Madeline Renbarger is joining Eric Newcomer’s newsletter operation to cover startups and venture capital.

She had been at Business Insider covering early stage artificial intelligence startups and venture capital before leaving last month.

She previously covered industry power players to changing investment trends. Before Business Insider, she worked on breaking news videos for the Recount as a production assistant.

Renbarger graduated 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.