Copeland, former EIC of The Block, departing company
Tim Copeland, the former editor in chief of cryptocurrency news site The Block, is leaving the organization. He has been head of growth at the company for the past year. Copeland had been editor in chief since October 2023. He previously has been news editor and managing editor of the publication. Prior to joining The Block in […]
Crypto news site DL News is closing
DL News, the cryptocurrency news site that launched in 2002, is closing. Paige Aarhus of DL News writes, “At the same time, the media environment deteriorated rapidly. We realised relatively early that a traditional subscription model would not sustain the business, and in 2024 we launched DL Research as our commercial arm. That effort succeeded […]
Yahoo Finance launching two new shows, small biz hub
Yahoo Finance unveiled Tuesday two new shows and a hub on its website for small business owners, founders and entrepreneurs. The Builders Hub will feature content from Entrepreneur Media and The Hustle, My First Million Podcast, and Starter Story video from HubSpot Media. Yahoo Finance is also launching “The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker,” a […]
Bloomberg hires WSJ’s Patterson
Bloomberg News senior executive editor Chris Nagi sent out the following on Monday: I’m excited to announce that Scott Patterson will join the Crypto/Cross-Asset team as a senior reporter, starting March 23. Scott has spent the last two decades at the Wall Street Journal in enterprise roles spanning government, regulation and all things markets. He won the […]
Binance sues WSJ parent for defamation
Binance filed a defamation lawsuit against Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, accusing it of falsely claiming the exchange fired staff who raised compliance concerns, reports Francisco Rodrigues of CoinDesk. Rodrigues reports, “In the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the company said the newspaper […]
Yahoo Finance strikes partnership with Coinbase
Yahoo Finance has struck a deal with Coinbase to add cryptocurrency prices and other information to its website. Users of the financial website will be able to make cryptocurrency trades by clicking on a button. Over time, Yahoo Finance will integrate Coinbase data and insights across its platform. Yahoo Finance also plans to launch a […]
Crypto news sites take down story critical of crypto PR
Several business-focused digital news outlets quietly took down news articles about the massive scale of junk information floating around the cryptocurrency space, reports Max Tani of Semafor. Tani reports, “Investing.com, one of the biggest business-focused digital news and investing sites, ran a piece titled, Crypto press releases dominated by high risk projects, chainstory study finds. But within a few […]
Sandmark hires Mishra as South Asia editor
Crypto news site Sandmark has hired Parikshit Mishra as South Asia editor. He was CoinDesk’s head of Asia, managing the editorial team in the region. He previously was deputy managing editor of breaking news. Before joining CoinDesk, he was the EMEA editor at Acuris (Mergermarket), where he dealt with copies related to private equity and the startup ecosystem. […]
Akhtar departs CryptoNews after two years
Tanzeel Akhtar has left CryptoNews after two years and is now freelancing. She previously was at Bloomberg News covering crypto. Akhtar was also a CoinDesk news reporter based in the UK. Akhtar has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes Africa, Financial Times, The Street, Citywire, Investing.com, Euromoney, Yahoo! Finance, Benzinga, Kitco News, African Business Magazine, Hedge Week, Campden Family […]
Study: 60% of crypto news releases bypassing editorial
More than three out of five news releases about cryptocurrency offerings are buying distribution on popular media outlets and bypassing editorial judgment, according to a study released Tuesday. According to the study from Chainstory, roughly 62% of the 2,893 press releases in its dataset — collected over a four-month span — come from projects flagged […]
