Fortune hires Schwartz to cover crypto and blockchain

Leo Schwartz

Fortune magazine has hired Leo Schwartz to write about cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

He previously was Rest of World’s Latin America reporter based in Mexico City. Schwartz worked with the Latin America editor, coordinating coverage and working on story ideas with other regular contributors in the region.

He was previously a reporting fellow at Rest of World, focusing mainly on technology in Latin America. Schwartz was previously the web editor at the NACLA Report.

He graduated with honors from NYU in May 2020 with a dual master’s degree in journalism and Latin American studies.

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.