Insider hires Chittum to cover crypto

Morgan Chittum

Insider has hired Morgan Chittum to cover crypto.

She will start on April 18.

She has been at Blockworks as a finance reporter covering cryptocurrency and macro and digital asset news.

Chittum had previously been at the New York Daily News as a breaking news reporter on the metro desk.

She previously contributed to American Banker and the Google Digital News Initiative. Chittum is a graduate of The King’s College in New York and was a Poynter Institute media and journalism fellow.

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.