Insider hires Rood for investigative team

Justin Rood

Insider has hired Justin Rood as a reporter on its investigative team.

“I can’t wait to dig into the strange and dark corners of global business, culture and politics with this talented group of journalists,” he wrote on Twitter.

Rood was previously director of the Congressional Oversight Initiative for the past six years. Its mission is to improve and enhance Congress’s ability to conduct effective oversight and investigations.

He was also investigations director for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and senior investigator for the permanent subcommittee of investigations for the U.S. Senate.

Before his roles in government, Rood was a produce on the ABC News investigative unit, a journalist for Government Executive and a staff reporter for CQ Roll Call.

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.