OLD Media Moves

Insider hires Russell-Kraft as legal editor

Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Stephanie Russell-Kraft has been hired as Insider’s first legal editor, overseeing its coverage of the legal and professional services industries.

She was most recently a special correspondent for Bloomberg Law and an independent reporter covering the intersections of law, religion, gender, labor & workplace matters.

She has written for The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, and U.S. News, among other publications. She has also covered religion, voting rights, and justice issues for Sojourners and was previously a legal reporter for Law360.

She holds a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and a bachelor’s in comparative literature and society from Columbia University.

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.

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