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Pensions & Investments hires Ligon to cover BlackRock

Cheyenne Ligon

Cheyenne Ligon will join Pensions & Investments as the business of money management reporter, with a focus on BlackRock, the world’s largest asset investment manager.

Ligon will be based in New York City and report to Erin Arvedlund, P&I’s enterprise editor. Ligon was formerly on the news team at CoinDesk, where she focused on crypto regulation and crime, including the downfall of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried. She has also penned  investigative features and analytical deep-dives.

“We have been fans of Cheyenne’s work for some time, and look forward to her beat coverage in asset management at P&I,” said Arvedlund.

Ligon has a Master of Arts in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, where she specialized in business reporting and won the S&P Global Award for Economic and Business reporting through the Overseas Press Club Foundation.

She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Tulane University in Louisiana. She is originally from Houston.

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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