Business Insider’s Carson to join Forbes to cover tech

Biz Carson

Biz Carson, a tech reporter at Business Insider covering startups and venture capital, has been hired by Forbes magazine.

She starts at Forbes on Aug. 14.

Carson has been a senior tech reporter at Business Insider in San Francisco since April 2015,

Before that, she was the assistant managing editor of Gigaom and an editorial fellow at Wired. She also previously worked as a newspaper designer for Gannett in Phoenix.tech.

She is a graduate of Indiana University in journalism and Spanish. Her name is short for Elizabeth.

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.