Insider hires Long of Seattle Times to cover Amazon

Katherine Long

Katherine Long has joined Insider to cover Amazon with chief tech correspondent Eugene Kim.

Long began writing about Amazon as a business reporter for The Seattle Times last year. Previously, she reported on real estate and the ports for that publication.

Long graduated from Columbia Journalism School’s investigative reporting program in 2019, before which she freelanced from Central Asia, Turkey and Cyprus and worked as a researcher for The New York Times and Vox Media.

Long is part of Insider’s growing Big Tech news team, which covers the world’s most powerful companies, entrepreneurs and technologies.

“I’m thrilled to welcome a reporter with such valuable investigative skills,” said Alistair Barr, deputy technology editor at Insider. “We will continue to recruit top journalists to cover beats including Asia tech, AI, and other key fields.”

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.