Decrypt hires Napolitano to cover cryptocurrency

Elizabeth Napolitano

Decrypt Media has hired Elizabeth Napolitano to cover the cryptocurrency industry.

She was at CoinDesk as U.S. court reporter for the regulations, policy and legal reporting team.

She had been a data journalist at CoinDesk, where she reported on topics such as decentralized finance, centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, altcoins and Web3.

She covered technology and business for NBC News and CBS News. In 2022, she received an ACP national award for breaking news reporting.

Napolitano is a graduate of the CUNY Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

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.