Steve Russolillo

Steve Russolillo is the Chief News Editor of Business Insider. Russolillo directs and drives the newsroom's coverage of business, technology, markets, finance, and innovation, overseeing reporters and editors across the U.S., London, and Singapore.

Before joining BI, he spent 17 years at The Wall Street Journal in various reporting and editing roles.

Russolillo helped build and then led the Journal's breaking news desk—a team of reporters, editors, and photo journalists tasked with dominating the most important stories of the day across coverage areas. Before that, he was a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong, covering markets, finance, and cryptocurrencies for the Journal from 2017 to 2020.

Russolillo earned an MBA in finance from Baruch College and worked at Goldman Sachs in the firm's asset management division. He went to undergrad at the University of Delaware.