Insider hires Barr as deputy tech editor

Alistair Barr

Insider has hired Bloomberg News journalist Alistair Barr as its deputy tech editor.

He will start in mid-May.

He joined Bloomberg in February 2016 and has been the Big Tech team leader, managing a team of reporters covering the largest U.S. technology companies, including Apple, Amazon and Google.

He won the Gerald Loeb Award in 2007 for his coverage of short selling and was a finalist in 2013 for scoops on the Facebook IPO. He also wrote about Google at the Wall Street Journal.

Barr was also a tech reporter for USA Today, and before that covered e-commerce at Reuters. Originally from Great Britain, he began his reporting on the finance side, working for Kiplinger’s, Bloomberg in London and then Marketwatch for several years before joining Reuters.

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.