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CoinDesk hires Bloomberg’s Hamilton to cover regulation

Jesse Hamilton

CoinDesk has hired Bloomberg News reporter Jesse Hamilton to cover regulation in Washington.

His title is deputy managing editor for global policy and regulation.

Hamilton started on Monday. He has been with Bloomberg for more than 11 years.

He’s won several national awards in his reporting career, which included a stint as a war correspondent in Iraq, time as a political journalist chasing presidential candidates and years covering police and courts for newspapers. In Washington, he’s cultivated expertise in the arcane activities of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and the many agencies that oversee the flow of money through the U.S. and around the globe.

He previously worked for AM Best Co., the Yakima Daily Herald and the Hartford Courant. Hamilton is a graduate of Western Washington 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.

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