Insider hires Velati to cover hedge funds

Alyson Velati

Fundfire managing editor Danielle Verbrigghe sent out the following announcement on Friday:

Hi everyone, I’m writing to let you know that Alyson Velati’s last day at FundFire will be Thursday, July 8. After six years with Money-Media, Alyson is leaving to take a job covering hedge funds at Business Insider.
Alyson first joined the company as a reporter at MandateWire in 2015 and moved over to FundFire the following year, eventually advancing to senior reporter. She has been a huge asset to the team, producing excellent work covering first the consultants beat and then the wealth management beat. Alyson has been a great team player, always willing to help out colleagues and taking on additional responsibilities editing distributor profiles while mastering her coverage areas.

Velati was also a freelance editor at Standard & Poor’s and is a SUNY-Purchase graduate.

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.