Reporter Epstein departing Business Insider

Kayla Epstein

Kayla Epstein, a senior political reporter at Business Insider, is leaving the news organization for a new opportunity.

She joined in 2020 after being a general assignments reporter for The Washington Post.

She started her career at The Post in 2016 as an audience editor for the National desk. Before that, she was a social journalism editor for The New School. Epstein also held the posts of intern, social media producer and engagement editor at Guardian News and Media.

She has also served as a communications aide, social media for New York City Independent Budget Office. Additionally, she has worked as a press intern, research assistant, staff writer and editorial intern at various places.

Epstein holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism, English and American literature from New York 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.