Insider hires dotLA’s Bergman for VC/startups coverage

Ben Bergman is joining Insider as a correspondent on our growing venture capital/startups desk, led by Julie Bort and Vishal Persaud.

Ben is joining us from dot.LA, where he is a senior finance reporter. He was the first staffer hired by the site in 2019.

Previously he was a senior business reporter and host at KPCC, a senior producer at Gimlet Media, a producer at NPR’s Morning Edition, and produced two investigative documentaries for KCET. He has been a frequent on-air contributor to business coverage on NPR and Marketplace and has written for The New York Times and Columbia Journalism Review.

Bergman was a 2017-2018 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economic and Business Journalism at 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.