Business Insider hires Stenovec as its tech editor

Business Insider has hired Timothy Stenovec, a technology reporter at The Huffington Post, to be technology editor.

He starts May 11 and will cover apps.

At The Huffington Post, he covers streaming media such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Spotify and Pandora, mobile devices and wearable technology. He appears regularly on TV, radio and HuffPost Live, The Huffington Post’s live streaming network.

Previously, he was the trends editor and associate standards editor at The Huffington Post, where he focused on breaking news and wrote about science, technology and politics. As a member of the standards team, he trained new reporters and editors in SEO and HuffPost style, standards and aggregation, and oversaw the editorial training program.

He is a graduate of the inaugural class of Jay Rosen’s Studio 20 master’s program at New York University, where he helped launch The Local East Village, a hyperlocal reporting collaboration between NYU and The New York Times. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Studio 20 Fellowship, a stipend to spend the summer reporting for The Local.

He was a researcher for the “The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust,” a New York Times bestselling book by Diana B. Henriques, a senior writer at The Times.

He graduated magna cum laude and with honors and distinction from Colby College.

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.