Categories: OLD Media Moves

Huffington Post hires Ferro from Business Insider

Business Insider staff writer Shane Ferro has been hired by Huffington Post’s business section.

In a tweet on Monday, Ferro wrote, “I’ll be covering the future of work and the evolving economy , which is a beat I’m super excited about.”

She starts Aug. 24.

In an email to the staff, Huffington Post business editor Alexander Kaufman wrote, “I recommend you acquaint yourself. Shane’s prose is nimble and sharp. She tempers her earnest, curious approach to stories with a healthy dose of journalistic skepticism. Having followed her work for some time now, I can say I have yet to be disappointed by anything with her byline on it.”

Ferro has been with Business Insider for the past year. Her reporting included stories about inequality, employment, the gender wage gap, and how everyday life intersects with economics.

Before that, Ferro worked at Reuters, where she wrote the Counterparties email analyzing the day’s most important business news story. She also created and wrote for the Equals blog, writing and editing posts on gender, economics, and education, and aggregated the best business and economics reporting daily for Counterparties.com.

Ferro is a 2011 graduate of Columbia 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.

Recent Posts

Dynamo hires former Business Insider executive editor Harrington

Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…

23 hours ago

Bloomberg TV hires Kerubo as desk producer

Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…

23 hours ago

Jittery CNBC staff reassured by new boss

In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…

23 hours ago

Making business news accessible to a wider audience

Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…

23 hours ago

Rest of World hires Lo as China reporter

Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…

24 hours ago

Bloomberg rises to No. 7 biz news website

Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…

1 day ago