Business Insider reporter Stokes switches to legal beat

Samantha Stokes

Business Insider reporter Samantha Stokes is switching beats to cover the legal industry.

Stokes is now focusing on how the industry is changing and the intersection of law firms and professional services firms.

She has been covering professional services industry with a focus on audit, tax, advisory and consulting firms.

Prior to joining Business Insider, Samantha was a business reporter for the legal industry trade publication The American Lawyer.

Samantha graduated from the University of Missouri and Columbia Journalism School.

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.