Insider hires Greenburg as a features writer

Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Zack O’Malley Greenburg

Insider has hired Zack O’Malley Greenburg as a features writer.

Greenburg has been senior editor of media and entertainment at Forbes, where he has worked for the past 10 years.

He is the author of four books, including the Jay-Z biography “Empire State of Mind.” His latest, “A-List Angels: How a Band of Actors, Artists and Athletes Hacked Silicon Valley,” was published by Little, Brown.

His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Billboard, Sports Illustrated, Vibe, McSweeney’s and the Library of Congress. A former child actor, Greenburg played the title role in the film “Lorenzo’s Oil” (1992) and arrived at Forbes in 2007 after graduating from Yale with an American Studies degree.

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.