Blockworks hires Chittum as finance reporter

Morgan Chittum

Morgan Chittum has been hired by Blockworks as a finance reporter.

She will start on Tuesday and cover cryptocurrency and macro and digital asset news.

Chittum has been at the New York Daily News for the past 14 months as a breaking news reporter on the metro desk.

She previously contributed to American Banker and the Google Digital News Initiative. Chittum is a graduate of The King’s College in New York and was a Poynter Institute media and journalism fellow.

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.