Business Insider hires Griffiths to write political newsletter

Brent Griffiths

Business Insider has hired Washington Post reporter Brent Griffiths to write a political newsletter.

He will start at Business Insider next week.

Griffiths is a researcher on Power Up, The Washington Post’s early-morning newsletter featuring news critical to the nation’s many power centers from the nation’s capital and beyond, and Finance 202, Power Post’s daily financial tip sheet.

Griffiths previously worked at Politico, where he anchored the site’s weekend and late-night breaking news coverage and Web production.

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.