Abadi named editor on “Business Insider Today” show

Mark Abadi

Mark Abadi has been named an editor on the “Business Insider Today” show that appears on Facebook.

He previously was the editor of Business Insider’s freelance content.

His new job involves copy editing each episode, including scripts, subtitles and graphics, and writing text stories that accompany each show segment. About 30 staffers work on the show, which just expanded with a weekly edition.

Abadi previously was a strategy reporter for Business Insider as well as a breaking news reporter and weekend editor.

He is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.

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.