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Insider hires The Information’s Dotan to cover gig economy

Tom Dotan

The Information reporter Tom Dotan has been hired by Insider to cover the gig economy.

He will report on Uber, DoorDash, Instacart and all the ways tech is changing the way we work.

Dotan joined The Information in 2014.

He spent the last two years covering tech for the Los Angeles Business Journal. While there he broke stories about the struggles of online video, the movie industry’s tense relationship with tech (particularly the talent agencies) and the rise and fall of subscription e-commerce.

Prior to the Business Journal he worked as a freelance political reporter, publishing pieces in the Guardian, Marketplace, KCET and the Sacramento Bee.

Originally from Northern California, he obtained a master’s degree in online journalism from USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism.

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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