Bloomberg reporter Marsh now covering crypto and blockchain

Bloomberg News reporter Alastair Marsh has switched beats and is now covering cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

Marsh, who is based in London, had been covering structured and corporate credit markets for Bloomberg News, including securitization, bonds, credit derivatives and fixed-income ETFs, for the past five years.

He joined Bloomberg in February 2012 to cover structured notes.

Before that, Marsh worked for the Financial Times online site FT Tilt covering Russia, Turkey and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Sussex and a master’s degree from University College London.

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.