Melvin Backman, a reporter at Quartz, has left the financial news site to become a fact checker at The New Yorker.
Backman had joined Quartz in November 2014 as part of its finance and markets reporting team.
He previously had been at CNN Money where he covered a wide range of financial and corporate news.
Prior to that, he had been at Debtwire, where he covered mid-market bankruptcies — companies with less than $150 million in funded debt. He also wrote about the Business Development Company industry.
Backman, who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013, had interned with Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. While a student, he won a SABEW Best in Business award in the student category.
