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Axios hires Fortune’s Shen to cover fintech

Lucinda Shen

Axios has hired Fortune magazine reporter Lucinda Shen to cover financial technology.

She will start in December.

Shen has been the primary writer of Fortune magazine’s private equity/venture capital email newsletter Term Sheet.

“I love Fortune and always will—I have been lifted up so many times by editors and coworkers here,” she wrote on Twitter.

Shen had been writing for the IPO section of the newsletter before becoming the primary writer. She has also written about finance, markets, and cryptocurrencies.

Shen joined Fortune.com as a reporter in 2016. Shen is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism. Before joining Fortune, she interned at Business Insider, where she covered the financial industry.

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.

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