Business Insider hires Stewart as senior tech reporter

Ashley Stewart

Ashley Stewart, a tech reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal, has been hired by Business Insider.

She will be a senior tech reporter covering Amazon and Microsoft and will remain based in Seattle.

“Grateful for my time and friends at PSBJ and looking forward to starting my new role next month,” she wrote on Twitter.

Stewart joined the Business Journal in September 2015 after graduating with a degree in journalism and political science from the University of Washington.

Stewart was named the best technology reporter at the company, as voted on by the editors of the papers, in 2017.

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.