Insider hires Brower as LA business bureau chief

Alison Brower

Insider has hired Alison Brower as its Los Angeles business bureau chief.

She’ll be hiring a team there to cover how tech is transforming Hollywood and the streaming wars.

Brower is currently deputy editor of arts and entertainment coverage at the Los Angeles Times, where she has been since November 2019. Before that, she was deputy editorial director at The Hollywood Reporter for more than five years.

She was also special projects editor at The Reporter, executive editor at Redbook, and acting executive editor and acting editor in chief at Seventeen.

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.