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Business Insider hires Lee to cover cannabis/psychedlics

Yeji Jessie Lee

Business Insider has hired Yeji Jessie Lee to cover cannabis and psychedelics on a full-time basis.

She previously was an editorial fellow at Business Insider covering the same beat.

Lee spent the summer as a contract reporter for The [Toronto] Globe and Mail’s Report on Business vertical, writing features and breaking news stories on the domestic economy, unemployment, and businesses as they attempted to recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

She also worked as an editorial board intern at Newsday.

Lee holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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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