Transportation editor at Business Insider; freelance writer on the auto industry for the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and blogger for BNET, he formerly covered the auto industry for Slate's The Big Money and blogger at its Shifting Gears; he also teaches business journalism at USC
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