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Akhtar departs CryptoNews after two years

Tanzeel Akhtar

Tanzeel Akhtar has left CryptoNews after two years and is now freelancing.

She previously was at Bloomberg News covering crypto. Akhtar was also a CoinDesk news reporter based in the UK.

Akhtar has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes Africa, Financial Times, The Street, Citywire, Investing.com, Euromoney, Yahoo! Finance, Benzinga, Kitco News, African Business Magazine, Hedge Week, Campden Family Office, Modern Investor, Spear’s Wealth Management Magazine, Global Investor, ETF.com, ETF Stream, CIO UK, Funds Global Asia, Portfolio Institutional, Interactive Investor, and Bitcoin Magazine,

Akhtar trained as a foreign correspondent at the University of Helsinki, Finland and holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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