The Information promotes Yurieff to team leader

Kaya Yurieff

The Information has promoted reporter Kaya Yurieff to team leader, focusing on focusing on shaping its creator economy coverage and growing the franchise.

Yurieff will continue to write its creator economy newsletter.

She joined the company three years ago. Yurieff had been a technology reporter at CNN for the past four years, where she reported on social media platforms, content creators and gig economy workers, including the popularity of LinkedIn influencers, YouTube creator burnout and Instacart tip baiting.

Previously, she covered spot news for The Street.

She grew up outside Burlington, Vermont, and graduated from George Washington 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.