Decrypt Media EIC Roberts joining Variant

Daniel Roberts

Decrypt Media editor in chief Daniel Roberts is leaving the cryptocurrency news site to become editor in chief of Variant.

Variant is an early stage investment fund for web3 companies.

“I’ll be building out an editorial operation that will include essays and technical papers, an email newsletter, and a podcast,” said Roberts in a message.

Roberts previously was an editor at large at Yahoo Finance, where he covered sports business, tech, bitcoin, and media. He hosted the podcast Sportsbook and the daily live show YFi AM. Before Yahoo, he spent more than five years at Fortune Magazine.

He is the author of the 2013 book “Zoom: Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career.”

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.