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Business Insider hires Haley to cover VCs, startups

Michael Haley

Business Insider has hired Michael Haley of Dow Jones as a VC/startups reporter.

He sill start in February and will be reporting to senior VC/startups editor Julie Bort.

He has been a research editor at Dow Jones since 2018 and has a master’s in journalism from New York University.

As a research editor, he researched and wrote about venture capital and private equity backed companies ranging from early-stage startups to unicorn’s receiving late-stage funding before filing for an IPO to companies apart of an acquisition, merger, or bankruptcy. More recently, he joined the Risk & Compliance team, where he covered individuals and entities on sanctions lists and news related to trade compliance, counter-terrorism financing, and anti-money laundering.

In addition, he’s been a contributor to Forbes Crypto & Blockchain section where he’s written about the industry’s evolution and growth into new financial areas.

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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