The Messenger hires two new business reporters

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.

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.