Business Insider hires O’Reilly as media and advertising editor

Lara O'Reilly

Lara O’Reilly

Business Insider has hired Lara O’Reilly as its media and advertising editor.

She will start next week.

She had been at Business Insider before leaving in 2017 to join The Wall Street Journal to cover media and marketing. Most recently, she had been at Digiday.

O’Reilly had been Business Insider’s advertising editor and senior editor overseeing global advertising coverage out of its London office since September 2014. Before that, she worked as a reporter and as a senior news reporter for Marketing Week, also in London.

She graduated from Kingston University in 2010 with a degree in 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.