Peterson named director of business news at Business Insider

Hayley Peterson

Hayley Peterson has been named the director of business news at Business Insider.

“I’m floored daily by the quality of journalism our newsroom is producing and I’m thrilled to start working more closely with an all-star roster,” she wrote on Twitter.

Peterson has been chief correspondent. She has been writing breaking news, analysis, and in-depth investigations on large public and private companies, with an emphasis on retailers including Amazon, Walmart, major grocery chains, and department stores.

Peterson won an honorable mention from the Society of Business Editors and Writers in 2018 for “defining the retail apocalypse” through her reporting on retail job losses, the decline of Sears, and the impact of store closings on bond holders.

She was previously a White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner in Washington, D.C.

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.