Blockworks is shutting its news operation
Crypto media company Blockworks announced the closure of its news division as it shifts focus toward its fast-growing data and analytics business. Pooja Rajkumari of TheStreet.com reports, “The announcement was made by co-founder Jason Yanowitz on X (formerly Twitter) on Oct. 29, where he praised the editorial team for helping ‘shape the industry conversation every […]
CoinDesk ME Schiller departs
Ben Schiller, CoinDesk managing editor for features and opinion, has left the cryptocurrency website to take on some new projects. Schiller has been at CoinDesk for six years. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at Breaker Magazine and a staff writer at Fast Company. He has covered crypto since 2013 and lives in New York. Schiller holds […]
Rice returns to Cointelegraph as editor in chief
Jon Rice, a veteran crypto media professional who has overseen the newsroom at three publications, has once again taken on the role of editor-in-chief at Cointelegraph. A story on its website states, “Rice previously held the position in 2020-21 during the COVID-19 pandemic, prior to which he built and launched the long-form Cointelegraph Magazine publication. […]
Napolitano departing Decrypt for new opportunity
Cryptocurrency reporter Elizabeth Napolitano is leaving Decrypt Media for a new opportunity. She previously was at CoinDesk as U.S. court reporter for the regulations, policy and legal reporting team. She had been a data journalist at CoinDesk, where she reported on topics such as decentralized finance, centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, altcoins and Web3. She covered technology and business for NBC News and CBS […]
What’s behind Sun’s lawsuit against Bloomberg
Molly White of Citation Needed writes about crypto billionaire Justin Sun’s lawsuit against Bloomberg News. White writes, “Sun claims that Bloomberg had agreed to keep confidential the information he shared with them, and that their draft article and alleged sharing of his wealth valuation with other Bloomberg colleagues for use in a separate article showed they had brazenly […]
Blockworks promotes Ross to senior news editor
Katherine Ross has been promoted to senior news editor at Blockworks, a cryptocurrency news site. She has been a news editor and a senior breaking news reporter based in Austin, and she also wrote the “Empire” newsletter. She worked as a senior producer and correspondent at TheStreet for five years prior to joining Blockworks. Ross holds a […]
A crypto newsletter that follows the money
Sarah Scire of The Nieman Lab profiles Molly White, whose “Citation Needed” newsletter currently has about 29,000 subscribers and about 2,400 (around 8%) pay up despite the lack of a paywall. Scire writes, “If you were looking for a single journalistic catchphrase, you could do worse than ‘follow the money.’ Investigating and documenting the flow of […]
CoinDesk parent stock doubles after IPO
Cryptocurrency company Bullish, the parent of CoinDesk, raised about $1.1 billion in an initial public offering and saw its stock open Wednesday at $90 on the New York Stock Exchange, 143% above its IPO price of $37, reports Tanaya Macheel of CNBC. Macheel reports, “Bullish, which is led by former New York Stock Exchange President […]
Nearly half of crypto stories written by AI
Afik Rechler and Tal Shmuel Harel of Chainstory report that nearly half of the cryptocurrency stories on five news site are written by artificial intelligence. Rechler and Harel report, “From January to June 2025, crypto newsrooms took different paths with AI. Some leaned heavily on it from the start. Others were just beginning to bring it […]
CoinDesk parent is planning an IPO
Bullish, the parent company of cryptocurrency news organization CoinDesk, has filed to raise more than $600 million in an initial public offering. Sam Bourgi of Cointelegraph writes, “The company intends to convert a portion of the IPO proceeds into US dollar–denominated stablecoins, according to the filing. “Bullish operates a digital asset platform tailored to institutional clients […]
