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Business Insider hires new political editor

Business Insider has hired Hunter Walker from Talking Points Memo to be its political editor, reports Dylan Byers of Politico.

Byers writes, “Josh Barro, the current politics editor, will turn his full attention to writing on economic policy issues, while Brett LoGiurato will continue to lead the site’s political news coverage.

“‘[Walker] will bring an expertise in scoop-driven political reporting that will complement what Brett and I do now, and a particular focus on New York and New Jersey politics, where he’s broken some of the most interesting stories over the last year,’ Barro wrote in an email, citing one of Walker’s reports on Anthony Weiner aide Barbara Morgan.

“Walker, 29, joined TPM from The New York Observer last year.

“In an email, Walker said he looked forward to helping position Business Insider ‘to get some blockbuster scoops and be a major player on the beat as we head into the 2014 election and beyond.'”

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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.