Insider hires Black as a correspondent

Julia Black

Insider has hired Julia Black as a correspondent.

Black, who recently reported a story for the website about Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy, has been working as a freelancer for the publication.

“Julia is persistent, fair, a talented writer, and a delight to work with,” wrote global editor in chief Nicholas Carlson on Twitter.

Black previously worked in book publishing at HarperCollins, before heading to Esquire to write about pop culture and edit features. She also worked at Bon Appétit.

As an investigative business reporter, Black’s work has also appeared in Billboard, The Daily Beast, and others. She has also been writing for the daily media newsletter Off the Record.

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.