Wealth and power reporter Kirsch departing The Daily Beast

Noah Kirsch, who covers wealth and power for The Daily Beast, has accepted its buyout offer and will be leaving after three years.

He wrote The Beast’s “Power Trip” column.

Kirsch previously was with Forbes for the past five years as a reporter, chief of reporters and a staff writer. At Forbes, he wrote feature stories and investigative pieces across a wide range of topics.

Kirsch has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, NPR’s All Things Considered, and BBC Radio, among other outlets.

He graduated from Tufts University with a dual degree in international relations and Arabic.

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.