Emily Stewart

Emily Stewart is a senior correspondent on Business Insider’s Discourse team. She focuses on consumerism, culture, and the economy, among other topics. Some of her biggest stories have explored Red Lobster’s demise, middle-class shoplifting, convenience stores’ struggles, the rise of illicit drugs as work performance-enhancers, and generational finance trends, including Gen Z’s love for AmEx and the impending avalanche of baby boomers’ stuff. She also writes regularly about sports betting, the alcohol industry, work, millennials, and economic trends. 

Emily appears regularly on nationally syndicated radio shows and podcasts, including Marketplace, The Weekend Dive, and Today, Explained. She has guest hosted C-SPAN’s “After Words” and moderated multiple panels on economic policy and workplace dynamics.

Before joining Business Insider, Emily was at Vox, where she covered business and the economy and wrote a newsletter, “The Big Squeeze,” about how people experience the forces of the economy and capitalism day to day. Prior to that, she worked at TheStreet.