Insider hires Persaud as startups/VC editor

Vishal Persaud

Insider has hired Vishal Persaud as an editor overseeing startups and venture capital coverage.

His first day is Monday.

“I’m really thrilled to be working with all of the talented reporters and editors there,” he wrote on Twitter.

Persaud has been editor of venture capital and technology at Pitchbook Data for the past year. From December 2015 to April 2020, he worked at Bloomberg News as a breaking news editor.

He also worked at Dataminr as a domain expert.

Persuad holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in journalism from CUNY.

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.