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Business Insider executive editor Yarow leaves

Jay Yarow, the executive editor for Business Insider, resigned Wednesday afternoon to accept another job.

His departure was announced in a short newsroom meeting.

Yarow has been executive editor, overseeing the day-to-day operations, for nearly a year. Before that, he was deputy editor, running the technology vertical and overseeing 16 reporters. He was also a senior editor at Business Insider and interned at BusinessWeek magazine.

“Jay’s great,” said Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget in an email to Talking Biz News. “So’s the network he’s headed to. We wish them both the best.”

Yarow didn’t immediately return an email seeking comment. CNBC has been seeking an executive editor for its online operation.

A CNBC spokeswoman said, “Jay is extraordinarily talented in the space, but he is not a CNBC employee.”

Yarow has a degree in economics from the University of Delaware, and a master’s in journalism from New York University.

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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