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Business Insider’s Chaparro leaving for The Block

Frank Chaparro

Business Insider reporter Frank Chaparro is leaving the business news website to become a senior correspondent for The Block, which covers the crypto markets.

He starts later this month.

Chaparro has been covering equity and crypto market structure, digital wealth management and Morgan Stanley for Business Insider.

He previously covered financial technology, exchanges, and young Wall Street culture.

Before joining Business Insider in 2017, Chaparro anchored and reported for WFUV Public Radio, an NPR affiliate in the Bronx, and worked at Nasdaq and the New-York Historical Society.

He graduated from Fordham University in 2017 with a degree in international political economy and theology.

In 2016 Chaparro was a finalist for the professional NYC division, Division I Radio-Best News Series and for the Chris Ulanowski Memorial Award for Best News Story in the College Radio Division.

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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