Business Insider hires Jakola as assistant ME

Kaitlyn Jakola

Kaitlyn Jakola has been hired by Business Insider as an assistant managing editor.

Her first day was Monday.

Jakola previously was the copy chief at Mic, where she managed the copy desk operations across all written and video editorial content, including newsletters, push notifications and platform-specific content.

She also wrote and maintained the in-house style guide across all publishing platforms. She had been at Mic since January 2015.

Before Mic, Jakola worked as a contributing editor at Autostraddle. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she was editor of The Daily Northwestern.

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.