James Dean was the Deputy Executive Editor of Insider's business division in the UK. From Insider's London newsroom, he oversaw the fast-paced Trending news desk and the Freelance & Contributions team.
Before joining Insider in June 2021, James spent 10 years at The Times of London, where he worked on the business news, home news, and opinion desks.
He worked undercover to expose fraud at one of Britain's biggest banks, an investigation that was shortlisted for the Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism. James was also shortlisted as business journalist of the year at the Society of Editors Press Awards. The bank was later handed a record fine.
In his last role at The Times, James was Chief Business Correspondent, where he was in charge of special projects and investigations, worked on the senior editing team, and wrote a weekly column.
Before that, for four years, he served as US Business Editor, based in New York, where he wrote about Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and everything in between.
He was part of an international team that reported on how Google profited from digital ads sold alongside jihadist content on YouTube, an investigation that was shortlisted as investigation of the year at the British Journalism Awards. He also wrote in depth about Amazon's domination of US retail, the boom-and-bust of America's shale oil industry, and the 2016 presidential election.
In a previous life, James was a death metal, rock, and indie drummer. He's now making do as an amateur DJ.