Tarpley promoted to banking and mortgages editor at Insider

Laura Grace Tarpley

Laura Grace Tarpley has been promoted to banking and mortgages editor at Insider.

She previously was an associate editor, responsible for banking and mortgage coverage on Personal Finance Insider.

Before joining the Business Insider team, she was a freelance finance writer for companies like SoFi, The Penny Hoarder, and Reset Button, as well as an editor at FluentU.

Tarpley previously taught English to Chinese students. She is a graduate of Young Harris College.

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.