Deputy ME Hamagama departing CoinDesk

Sandali Handagama

Sandali Handagama, the deputy managing editor at CoinDesk, is leaving the cryptocurrency publication.

Handagama is CoinDesk’s deputy managing editor for policy and regulations, EMEA. She started at CoinDesk in 2020 as a reporter.

“I’ve had the best time covering crypto here – especially regulations around the world,” she wrote on Twitter.

She is an alumna of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has contributed to a variety of publications including The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Nation and Popular Science.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida.

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.