Golden departing Business Insider to become investment manager

Theo Golden

Investing reporter Theo Golden is leaving Business Insider to become a trainee investment manager.

He plans to join money manager Baillie Gifford in September.

“I’m so grateful to have worked in such a fantastic newsroom and I will really miss all my wonderful colleagues, especially the brilliant markets and investing teams,” said Golden on Twitter.

Golden joined Business Insider in October 2020 covering markets and telling stories on how the investors are spending their money.

Previously, Golden was a news intern at Bloomberg. He has also worked at Palatinate U.K. for more than a year, joining as a co-music editor, and then holding the post of profile editor.

He has also worked at Acuris for a year, joining as a transactions intern on the Mergermarket editorial team. Later on, he worked as a freelance financial journalist for the company. Golden was also selected to be a on the AS Aspire 2019 Coaching Program. Golden is a graduate of Durham 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.