Categories: OLD Media Moves

Business Insider hires VentureBeat writer

Matt Lynley, a tech writer with VentureBeat in San Francisco, has been hired by BusinessInsider.com to expand its tech coverage.

Lynley will move to New York later this year, but he will also recommend tech writers to BusinessInsider.com, which wants to build a presence on the West Coast.

“I still think VB has awesome games coverage, and they have a killer team on the West Coast,” said Lynley in an e-mail to Talking Biz News.

He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he studied business journalism, math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters as an intern.

At VentureBeat, he writes about venture capitalism, clean technology and video games. However, in the past week, he has been covering Apple and the iPhone 4S.

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.