Business Insider hires Sullivan to cover private equity

Casey Sullivan

Business Insider has hired Casey Sullivan to cover private equity.

He will start June 17.

Sullivan has been a Knight-Bagehot fellow at the Columbia University graduate School of Journalism for the past year.

Sullivan, 31, was previously senior editorial director at Bloomberg Law, where he launched Big Law Business, a publishing platform that features news, commentary, video, podcasts and events covering the business of law.

Before joining Bloomberg in 2015, he was a correspondent for Reuters covering U.S. law firms and the legal market. Previously, he reported for Los Angeles Daily Journal and Seacoast Media Group.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, including first place for Website of the Year in 2017 from the American Society of Business Publication Editors.

Sullivan holds a B.A. in English 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.