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Business Insider hires Snyder as managing editor

Benjamin Snyder

Benjamin Snyder has been hired by Business Insider as a managing editor.

His first day was Monday. Snyder will focus on growing the markets team.

“I’ll also assist with the fellowships program as well as other strategy projects across the newsroom,” said Snyder on Twitter.

He has been working as a story editor at Storyful for the past three months as a contract employee. Before that, he was an audience development editor at Bloomberg News and an associate blog editor at LinkedIn.

He also worked at CNBC’s Make It as leadership editor. Snyder spent the nine months as an assistant managing editor of Odyssey, where he launched a breaking news team to cover trending subjects across the U.S. with over 35 reporters.

Before that, Snyder worked at Fortune.com as an associate editor and a reporter.

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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