VC reporter Bernard is departing The Information

Zoe Bernard

Zoe Bernard, a reporter at The Information covering venture capital, is leaving the tech news organization.

Bernard plans to freelance.

She previously covered startups and tech culture at Business Insider before joining the Information in early 2019. She was based in the New York bureau.

Bernard had been with Business Insider since October 2017, first as an intern. A former piano teacher, she was a fact checker for Via magazine and a blogger for SiliconAngle Media.

She also worked at San Francisco magazine and Eater. She holds a degree from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

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.