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Barro returning to Business Insider

Josh Barro is returning to Business Insider as a columnist and senior editor, writes Hadas Gold of Politico.

Gold writes, “Barro will take charge of the site’s commentary team while also writing columns on politics, business and the economy.

“Barro previously worked at Business Insider as politics editor, but left after less than a year in 2014 to join The New York Times’ policy venture The Upshot. In an interview, he said he realized it’s strange to leave an institution such as the New York Times but he wanted to move past the firewall between news and opinions.

“‘The way this came about, we’re in the weirdest moment in American politics in my lifetime, possibly for a longer period of time than that. While the Times has been absolutely amazing, it’s been limiting in certain ways to be on the news side,’ Barro said. ‘There’s a lot I want to say about what’s going on and I feel like I could be more useful as an opinion writer. My previous stint at Business Insider went really well and was really impactful and I’m basically looking forward to do a lot more like what I was doing.'”

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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.

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