Business Insider hires Fellman as military and defense editor

Sam Fellman

Business Insider has hired Sam Fellman as its military and defense editor.

Fellman has been managing editor of Task & Purpose, a site covering the military community, since February. Before that, he spent 10 months as world news managing editor at BuzzFeed.

He spent nearly three years as managing editor of Navy Times, overseeing daily web coverage of the U.S. Navy. He led a team of six in directing breaking news and enterprise coverage, including immersive projects.

Before that, Fellman sent more than three years as a beat reporter covering U.S. Navy personnel and operations. He revealed how the fleet’s mainstay uniform was susceptible to melting in a fire, a common hazard at sea.

Fellman graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2002 and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2010.

He served as a surface warfare officer and deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Army in addition to deploying aboard the USS Nimitz and the USS Higgins.

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.