Insider hires Schwartz as a senior correspondent

Mattathias Schwartz

Insider has hired Mattathias Schwartz as a senior correspondent.

He will start next week.

Schwartz has been a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine.

He has also contributed to The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books, Bloomberg Businessweek, and numerous other publications.

His New Yorker story, “A Massacre in Jamaica,” on the Christopher Coke extradition, won the 2011 Livingston Award for international reporting. He has spoken at the Harvard Kennedy School and appeared on Charlie Rose. He edited and published the 21 issue run of the Philadelphia Independent, a broadsheet newspaper.

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.