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How Insider’s Cosgrove covers the supply chain beat

Emma Cosgrove

Insider senior reporter Emma Cosgrove spoke with Phil Rosen about how she covers supply chain stories.

Here is an excerpt:

What does a day in the life of reporter Emma Cosgrove look like? 

I always start my day with news. Logistics is obviously global and there are plenty of stories to read out of China and Europe when I wake up in New York. A lot of my work is planned out ahead of time since it’s fairly deep reporting for Insider subscribers, but sometimes I get a tip that’s worth dropping everything for and those days are secretly my favorite.

The most important thing I do every day is keep up with folks doing the work in logistics, from startup founders, consultants, and investors to package-delivery drivers and gig workers. Especially during the holiday delivery season, I want to know what everyone is seeing all over the US and, increasingly, the world. Sometimes it’s a long, winding conversation, but a lot of the time it’s just a text to a package-delivery driver asking ‘How many stops today?’

Read more here.

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.

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