Lewitinn hired as managing editor of The Block

Lawrence Lewitinn

Lawrence Lewitinn has been hired as managing editor of cryptocurrency site The Block.

He has most recently been co-host of CoinDesk TV’s flagship daily program, “First Mover.”

Lewitinn was also managing editor of markets at CoinDesk. He previously was editor in chief of Modern Consensus, a new website covering the cryptocurrency and blockchain markets.

Lewitinn was deputy editor of the New York Observer as well as its business and tech editor. He also worked at Yahoo Finance, where he regularly produced and wrote some of the site’s market news stories. Prior to Yahoo, he was a producer for CNBC’s “Talking Numbers,” “Options Action” and “Futures Now.”

Lewitinn spent two decades in finance before reporting on it. He managed the Asian and European markets desk for quantitative-oriented hedge fund MQS Asset Management, trading fixed income, currencies, and commodities. He also served as director of acquisitions for two real estate investment companies.

A graduate of New York University, Lewitinn has both an MBA in finance and a master of international affairs from Columbia University, with concentrations in security policy and the Middle East.

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.