Blockworks reporter Cirrone departs

James Cirrone

James Cirrone, a reporter at Blockworks who covered the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, has left the cryptocurrency publication.

He previously was an intern for Bloomberg News, where he helped write and copyedit the Sydney and Hong Kong editions of Daybreak, a morning brief for global financial professionals.

Cirrone is a University of Maryland graduate. While there, he wrote for The Diamondback, the student newspaper.

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.