Bankrate hires Business Insider’s Harney to develop audience

Megan Harney

Megan Harney has been hired by personal finance site Bankrate.com as an audience development editor.

Harney came from Business Insider, where she was distribution editor since January. She previously had been the associate distribution editor.

Harney previously worked as a freelance reporter for the Irish Echo.

She is a graduate of Fairfield University. While in college, she interned for Cosmopolitan’s website. She also interned for Good Housekeeping.

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.