Insider hires Pulitzer winner Bates to be an editor

Eric Bates

Nicholas Carlson, global editor in chief of Business Insider and Insider, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

Team!
I have some good news.
We’ve hired Eric Bates as an editor for Insider. His focus will be analysis: stories that answer big topical questions. They’ll come in feature form and shorter. Some will take days to produce, others, months.
This is very much an investment in our current and future writing staff, and Eric will work across the newsroom developing exciting pitches into even better stories. Eric will also work with his own team, which he’ll begin building as soon as he joins us in January.
Eric was previously an executive editor for Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, features editor for New York, and editor in chief of The New Republic. He’s earned many of the profession’s highest honors, including seven National Magazine Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.

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.