Business Insider hires St. John as transportation reporter

Business Insider has hired Alexa St. John to be a reporter on its transportation team.

She starts on Monday.

St. John has been a reporter at Automotive News for the past two years, covering technology and supplies. She has reported for Automotive News’ mobility brand, Shift, which includes daily online coverage, print reporting both for the weekly newspaper and quarterly Shift mobility magazine, contributing to our bi-weekly podcast and newsletter reporting.

She previously interned for the Greater New York section of The Wall Street Journal.

St. John is a University of Michigan graduate, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

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.