CoinDesk hires Baker as deputy editor in chief

Nick Baker

Cryptocurrency news site CoinDesk has hired Nick Baker as its deputy editor in chief.

He has been an editor on the U.S. markets editing desk at Bloomberg News. He had been at Bloomberg for more than 16 years.

Baker previously was an editor on the rates and foreign exchange team, and a team leader and reporter on the market structure team.

He also worked as a reporter and the team leader for U.S. stocks. Baker also edited the Real M&A column.

He previously worked as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires covering bankruptcies and telecom.

Baker is a graduate of Ohio University.

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.