Business Insider editor in chief Jamie Heller sent out the following on Monday:
I’m excited to share that Rick Brooks is joining Business Insider as Standards Editor.
I worked with Rick for more than two decades at The Wall Street Journal, where he most recently served as a standards editor, advising reporters and editors across the newsroom. Rick reviewed sensitive stories, videos, graphics, and anything else that might need a thoughtful eye. He also conducted standards training across the Journal’s newsroom.
Rick was a go-to source of advice for me for years, and I am confident he will similarly help many of us here at Business Insider.
Before serving as a standards editor at the WSJ, Rick was a senior editor for enterprise, senior deputy editor for the Money & Investing team (where we covered the financial crisis together), and a reporter and deputy bureau chief in Atlanta (he covered banking). He got his start in local journalism in North Carolina at the Business Journal of Charlotte and the Greensboro News & Record.
Throughout his career, Rick has worked on many projects that have won major awards, including Pulitzer, Loeb, Polk, and SABEW awards. He has taught business journalism at the college level.
Rick is a solutions-oriented editor, always seeking to publish reporting that meets the journalistic pillars of fairness and accuracy.
He will final-read sensitive stories, work with our legal team, review our editorial policies and style guides, help train staff, and oversee our copy desk. He will work in our New York newsroom, report to me, and be a great resource for our entire team.