Business Insider promotes Liebman to global managing editor

Jessica Liebman

Business Insider has promoted Jessica Liebman to global managing editor.

She previously was executive managing editor.

“Jess built our newsroom, participating in the hiring of all ~350 people in it,” said global editor in chief Nicholas Carlson in a tweet. “She and her team of managing editors help the rest of us train, develop, and deliver impactful journalism.”

Liebman was also the managing editor from September 2010 to April 2015 of Business Insider, where she oversaw hiring and manages the newsroom, among other things.

Before coming to Business Insider, she was an editor at Big Think, a website that produces video interviews with thought leaders. Liebman also worked as an editor at Condé Nast Portfolio magazine, the now-defunct monthly business publication. She’s a graduate of Cornell University.

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.