The Block hires Crooks to be East Coast managing editor

Nathan Crooks

Cryptocurrency news site The Block has hired Nathan Crooks to be its East Coast managing editor.

Crooks previously was with Bloomberg News as a breaking news editor based out of Miami. He also spent five years as its Caracas bureau chief and two years as an energy reporter in Venezuela.

Before Bloomberg, he was energy editor for Business News America and an editor of The Santiago Times in Chile.

Crooks holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from American 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.