Business Insider reporter Jones departs for Vox

Benji Jones

Business Insider senior reporter Benji Jones is leaving the organization for a position at Vox.

At Vox, he will be joining a new biodiversity reporting initiative launching in April.

Jones has been at Business Insider since December 2018, first as a video producer for science. He has since been an energy reporter and a senior energy reporter since June 2020.

He previously was a freelancer who wrote for New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and Quartz.

Jones previously worked at the World Forest Institute and at The Dirzo Lab at Stanford 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.