Business Insider hires Dorman as senior politics reporter

John Dorman

Business Insider has hired John Dorman as a senior politics reporter.

“This is a dream role for me and I feel so fortunate to have this opportunity,” he wrote on Twitter.

Dorman has been a writer for The New York Times for the past nine years, writing for various sections, mostly at the Travel Desk. He also designed graphics for the Business Desk, edited domestic and international newsletters, managed the Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts at Travel, and produced digital news and feature special issues.

He also interned at Fast Company magazine.

Dorman is a graduate of Georgetown 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.