The Block hires Investopedia’s Siew to be executive editor

Walden Siew

Walden Siew, the editorial director at Investopedia, has been hired by crypto news site The Block as executive editor.

He will be leading editorial strategy and managing news content and will be based in New York.

Before Investopedia, Siew previously was editor in chief of Arizent’s Employee Benefits Group, overseeing the Employee Benefit News and Employee Benefit Adviser brands. Siew had been the financial services editor at LinkedIn since December 2016. Before that, he was news editor at Crain’s InvestmentNews for a year.

He also spent eight years at Reuters. He was editor of the Global Markets Forum and deputy editor of wealth and finance coverage, running the wealth management, investment management and investment banking top news pages.

Siew was also a reporter at Bloomberg News for six years, working as a corporate bond reporter on the U.S. bond team and as a U.S. Treasury/foreign exchange reporter.

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.