Business Insider hires Zaveri as senior tech reporter

Paayal Zaveri

Business Insider has hired Paayal Zaveri as a senior tech reporter in San Francisco.

Zaveri will cover enterprise technology with a focus on the cloud.

She has been a field producer at CNBC’s San Francisco bureau covering tech, tech policy and California economy for the network’s broadcast, website and digital platforms.

Zaveri graduated from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in May 2017, where she focused on multimedia reporting. Her work has been published in CNBC, NBC Asian America, KQED Public Radio, San Francisco Public Press and Richmond Confidential.

She’s a board member for both the Asian American Journalists Association SF Bay Area chapter and the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter.

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.