The Block’s Chaparro moving to business side

Frank Chaparro

The Block senior correspondent Frank Chaparro is moving to the business side of the cryptocurrency news organization.

He will continue to host the flagship podcast “The Scoop” but is becoming director of special projects and will be collaborating with operations, management, and sales teams.

Chaparro joined The Block from Business Insider in September 2018. He previously covered financial technology, exchanges, and young Wall Street culture.

Before joining Business Insider in 2017, Chaparro anchored and reported for WFUV Public Radio, an NPR affiliate in the Bronx, and worked at Nasdaq and the New-York Historical Society.

He graduated from Fordham University in 2017 with a degree in international political economy and theology.

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.