Business Insider hires Biron to cover retail

Bethany Biron

Business Insider has hired Bethany Biron to cover the retail beat.

Biron has been a freelance reporter and editor for the past year, with her work appearing in the Washington Post, Vox, Deadspin and Cosmopolitan. She has written on a wide variety of topics, with a particular interest in retail, culture and gender.

In addition to journalistic writing, she also contributed content marketing posts and copywriting for companies like Talkspace, Tinder, McCann Worldwide and the Montessori School of Manhattan.

She was the retail reporter for Digiday from April 2016 to July 2018.

Biron is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she was managing news editor for The Daily.

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.