Charissa Cheong

Charissa Cheong is a senior first-person reporter on Business Insider's Business Contributors and Freelance team, based in London. 

She covers: Relocation and immigration, how employment visas impact careers, what it’s like working at the world’s biggest companies or alongside its most prominent leaders, how the AI revolution is affecting professionals, and more. 

Charissa’s work spans a wide range of topics, but the unifying thread is first-person storytelling — sharing people’s unique career and life experiences in their own voice, with their own words. 

She writes in Business Insider’s signature “As-told-to” format, which is designed to highlight powerful perspectives in a conversational way. She also commissions and edits personal essays from freelance writers and contributors. 

Charissa joined Business Insider in 2022 on the digital culture desk, covering family vlogging, online harassment, and influencer culture. She moved to the contributors and freelance team in 2024.

She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in English and holds a gold standard NCTJ Level 5 journalism diploma.