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Fortune hires CNBC’s Locke to cover crypto

Taylor Locke

Taylor  Locke has been hired by Fortune magazine to cover crypto.

She has been a money reporter at CNBC Make It covering crypto, wealth and everything related. Previously, she was an entrepreneurs reporter.

Prior to joining CNBC, Locke was a segment producer and writer at Yahoo Finance. She was also a production assistant at Fox Business Network.

She has also worked a freelance production assistant at Entertainment Partners. She was also a USA and SYFY production intern and then a Bravo production and development intern at NBC Universal Media.

Locke has also interned at IPG Mediabrands, Navigant, Grant Thornton LLP and Martin and Selinger & Co.

Locke is a B.B.A. from Baruch College, City University of New York.

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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