Sherwood Media hires Phillips as senior markets correspondent

Matt Phillips.

Matt Phillips

Sherwood Media has hires Matt Phillips from Axios to be its senior markets correspondent.

Phillips has been working for Axios since December 2021 as the co-author of the daily morning “Axios Markets” newsletter and covering the latest market trends and economic insights.

From 2018 to 2021, Phillips has worked for The New York Times, covering financial markets. Phillips previously served as editor in chief at Vice Money and was a founding staffer at Quartz.

He was also a reporter at the Bakersfield Californian and the Albany Business Review.

Sherwood is the editorially independent arm of Robinhood led by Josh Topolsky.

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.