Business Insider hires Whitehouse as senior finance editor

Kaja Whitehouse

Business Insider has hired Kaja Whitehouse as a senior finance editor.

She has been the deputy business editor at the New York Post since February 2019. She also covered Manhattan courts for the newspaper.

She previously covered Wall Street for USA Today and technology for the Post. Her reporting at the Post triggered an SEC and Justice Department investigation in 2012 with look into how an employee at shareholder advisory firm ISS had been improperly selling shareholders’ votes to corporate boardrooms in exchange for concert tickets and other gifts.

She also worked at Dow Jones for nearly eight years, covering hedge funds and asset managers, personal finance and corporate governance.

She is the author of “What Your Lawyer May Not Tell You About Your Family’s Will,” a financial advice book published in 2006.

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.