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Tech Insider promotes Shontell to executive editor

Alyson Shontell

Business Insider co-founder and editor in chief Henry Blodget sent out the following announcement on Tuesday morning:

Hello, everyone!

We’re excited to announce that we’re promoting Alyson Shontell to Executive Editor of Tech Insider. Alyson will work closely with Editor-in-Chief Gus Lubin, Managing Editor Emily Cohn, and the Tech Insider team.

Tech Insider has seen spectacular growth since its launch last summer. The site’s coverage of tech, science, innovation, and culture has struck a chord with the global digital audience, and Tech Insider already has the largest social following of any consumer tech site (4+ million fans). Tech Insider is also already the No. 1 producer of tech-related video, with more than 300 million views per month.

Alyson joined us in July 2008 as our 6th employee (only Julie Hansen and I have been here longer). Alyson started on our sales team, and then, inspired by the enthusiastic reception to an article she contributed about her “nightmare” job interviews at Google, she joined our editorial team.

Alyson started as tech reporter, then worked her way up to Correspondent, Senior Correspondent, Editor, and Deputy Editor. Her high-impact, long-form investigative work has included inside stories about the collapse of the former unicorn Fab, the truth about the mysterious payments startup Clinkle, and the tragic suicide of startup founder Jody Sherman. For the past year, Alyson has overseen Business Insider’s technology, science, lifestyle and entertainment sections.

Alyson also hosts our IGNITION conference, and has appeared on ABC with Katie Couric, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, and CBC. She graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she majored in psychology and advertising.

Please join us in congratulating Alyson.

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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