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Lashinsky departing Fortune, will write for Insider/Business Insider

Adam Lashinsky

Fortune magazine executive editor Adam Lashinsky is leaving the publication and will write for Insider and Business Insider.

Lashinsky will write a regular column and several features a year.

He had been Fortune’s executive editor since 2017. Lashinsky joined Fortune in 2001 and has written numerous cover stories on the most important companies and people in Silicon Valley and beyond.

He is the author of the 2012 bestseller “Inside Apple” and “Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination,” to be published in May. He previously was assistant managing editor at Fortune, and he was editorial director of the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, as well as a co-chair of the Fortune Global Forum.

Lashinsky also wrote a daily column for Fortune’s Data Sheet newsletter, and he appeared regularly on the Fox News Channel.

He previously worked for TheStreet.com as a Silicon Valley columnist and for the San Jose Mercury News as a tech columnist.

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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