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Business Insider hires Ito to cover the new economy

Aki Ito

Business Insider has hired Aki Ito as a senior correspondent covering the new economy.

Ito worked for Bloomberg News for 10 years, starting in the Tokyo bureau as an intern, and then as a reporter for the economics team there. She moved to the San Francisco newsroom in 2012 to cover the Federal Reserve, and then went on to co-lead the launch of the economics vertical Benchmark.

In 2016, she participated in Bloomberg’s job swap program to serve as interim Tokyo bureau chief, and after that became the digital editor for Bloomberg’s technology team. Most recently, she was the host of the docuseries Next Jobs and the co-host of the podcast Decrypted.

Her journalism has won awards from organizations including SABEW, the San Francisco Press Club, the New York Press Club, SPJ Nor-Cal, the Institute on Political Journalism, the Society of Publishers in Asia, and the Webbys.

She left Bloomberg in January 2020 to take a year off with her wife. At Business Insider, she’ll be focusing on features about the labor market and workplace trends.

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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