Business Insider remembers Trevor Cadigan

Trevor Cadigan (Photo by Jacqui Frank)

Abby Jackson of Business Insider writes about its former intern Trevor Cadigan, who died Sunday at the age of 26 in a helicopter crash in New York.

Jackson writes, “Cadigan worked at Business Insider from this past October through February, during which time his talent and ambition quickly shone.

“‘He was very enthusiastic and was certainly an overachiever,’ said Sara Silverstein, a Business Insider editor.

“Friends and colleagues said he was someone who gave his time and energy selflessly, even when there was no personal gain.

“‘He’d constantly ask to help me, and anyone around him, if he could help, just because,’ a friend and former Business Insider colleague, Corey Protin, said. ‘There were no strings attached.’

“Cadigan, who dressed daily in a suit and tie for work, wasn’t afraid to stand out. But his seriousness for his job didn’t get in the way of his affability and ability to make friends everywhere he went.”

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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.