Ward hired by Business Insider to cover diversity and inclusion

Marguerite Ward

Marguerite Ward has been hired by Business Insider to cover diversity and inclusion in leadership and the workforce.

Ward previously was an editor and a staff writer for Today.com.

She covered entrepreneurship, career and money news for CNBC Make It. Previously, she covered breaking news for CNBC.

Ward is a College Emmy Award-nominee for broadcast journalism she produced in graduate school. She has written for the International Business Times, The Daily Beast, The New York Daily News and others.

She holds a master of arts degree from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a McGraw Business Journalism Fellow. She graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology.

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.