Bankrate hires Garcia as a data reporter

Adrian Garcia

Adrian Garcia has been hired by Bankrate as a data reporter in New York.

Garcia is a print and online journalist who has covered business and data stories in Colorado. Most recently he worked for a startup in Denver, Denverite.com, backed by the founder of Business Insider.

He previously covered trends, startup news and developments as a growth and data reporter for the legacy newspaper The Fort Collins Coloradoan.

Garcia joined the Coloradoan in 2014 after graduating with a journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2016, he participated in ProPublica’s inaugural summer data institute.

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.