Swearingen to oversee fast investigations at Insider

Jake Swearingen

Business Insider deputy editor Jake Swearingen has been named deputy editor of Insider’s fast investigations team.

He joined Business Insider in February 2020 as a deputy editor overseeingtech, retail and transportation. He previously had worked at Consumer Reports.

Swearingen also worked as a tech writer for New York Magazine. In 2015, was site director at Popular Mechanics. Before that, Swearingen served as an associate editor and digital director at The Atlantic and Modern Farmer, respectively.

He has also worked as a web editor at both LA Weekly and SF Weekly. Swearingen also held the post of senior associate editor for Livingly Media and worked as a reporter at BNET.

Swearingen is a B.A. in English from the University of Arkansas.

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.