Business Insider hires Rodriguez to cover the future of TV

Ashley Rodriguez

Business Insider has hired Quartz reporter Ashley Rodriguez to cover the future of TV on its media team.

She will start on April 15.

Rodriguez has been covering media and marketing for Quartz, covering the businesses of Hollywood, streaming video, and digital marketing, including companies like Disney, Netflix, and Google.

Previously, she covered retail and financial marketers at Advertising Age. She also worked for creative and marketing agencies, and was a freelance journalist.

Rodriguez has a bachelor’s from Pace University and a master’s in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where she now teaches a course on business 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.