Columnist Barro returning to Business Insider

Josh Barro

New York magazine columnist Josh Barro is returning to Business Insider as a columnist.

Barro will start next month and will write about politics, business and the economy. His last day at New York magazine will be Friday, Nov. 13.

He had been at New York magazine for slightly more than 2 years as a business columnist for Intelligencer, a new site covering politics, business, technology, media, and innovation.

Barro was previously senior editor at Business Insider, where he wrote commentary on politics, business, and the economy. He is also host of KCRW’s “Left, Right & Center,” and a contributor to MSNBC.

Prior to working at Business Insider, he was a domestic correspondent for the New York Times.

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.