Business Insider ad editor Shields leaving to become consultant

Mike Shields

Mike Shields, the advertising editor at Business Insider, is leaving the news organization.

His last day is Friday. Shields is becoming an independent communications and strategic consultant specializing in the media and advertising industries.

“I can’t say enough good things about Business Insider,” said Shields on Twitter. “I’ve had a blast working here. Have learned so much. If you’re a business journalist, this is where you want to be right now.”

Shields joined Business Insider in May 2017. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal as advertising editor. Shields was previously digital editor at Adweek and senior editor at Digiday.

He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.

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.