News startup The Messenger has hired Bruce Gil and Francisco Velasquez as breaking business news reporters.
Gil received his master’s degree from CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in 2021, with a dual concentration in Spanish-language reporting and health and science reporting. Prior to joining “Frontline” as a Tow Journalism Fellow in February 2022, he provided production and research assistance on the three-part series “After Ayotzinapa,” a project of Reveal, from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Previously, after graduating from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies in 2017, Gil worked as a news producer for KUNV and as an editorial and production assistant for the Emerge Impact + Music Conference.
Velasquez has been at CoinDesk since February 2022. He previously interned at Inc. magazine and CNBC. He also worked at Borderless Magazine.
Velasquez is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
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