FT hires Chipolina as digital assets correspondent

Scott Chipolina

The Financial Times has hired Scott Chipolina to be its digital assets correspondent.

He will start next month.

Chipolina is currently a reporter at Decrypt. He previously worked for the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission and holds a masters’ degree from City University London, in Investigative Journalism. His areas of interest include financial crime, social media misinformation and the regulation of cryptocurrencies.

He also holds an undergraduate degree from University of York and a master’s degree from Durham University.

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.