Insider’s Lee departing for The Drive

Kristen Lee

Business Insider senior automotive reporter Kristen Lee is leaving to become deputy editor of The Drive.

Her last day at Business Insider is Wednesday. She will start her new job next month and help spearhead car reviews and features coverage.

“Despite everything, The Drive grew hugely last year, nearly doubling its audience,” she wrote on Twitter.

Lee joined Business Insider a year ago to cover cars and write auto reviews.

She had been at Jalopnik since June 2016. She previously worked at DownforceLifestyle and Road & Track. She also worked at DuPont Registry.

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.