Engel leaves Insider/Business Insider for NBC News

Pamela Engel

Insider executive editor Pamela Engel has left the company to become lead breaking news editor for NBC News.

Engel joined Business Insider seven years ago. As Insider executive editor, she oversaw its global news teams.

She previously was politics editor and also the deputy editor overseeing politics and military/defense coverage. Engel was also a senior reporter covering politics, foreign policy, and national security. Before Business Insider, she worked for the Associated Press in Indianapolis.

She has also written for The Columbus Dispatch, the Scripps Howard news wire, and the New York Observer.

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.