Axios hires Phillips from NY Times to cover markets

Matt Phillips.

Axios has hired Matt Phillips to co-author the daily morning “Axios Markets” newsletter and cover all of the latest market trends and economic insights.

Phillip’s hire will help bolster the Axios business team.

“We are excited about our business news powerhouse team and excited about the impact they will make in our coverage,” said Axios editor-in-chief Sara Kehaulani Goo in a statement.

Since 2018, Phillips has worked for The New York Times, covering financial markets. Phillips previously served as editor in chief at Vice Money and was a founding staffer at Quartz.

He was also a reporter at the Bakersfield Californian and the Albany Business Review.

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.