CNNMoney’s Backman joins Quartz

Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following staff announcement on Thursday:

Melvin Backman starts today as the newest edition to the finance and markets reporting team.
He joins from CNN Money where he covered a wide range of financial and corporate news. Prior to that he covered bankruptcies, restructurings, and other sordid credit events at Debtwire. While Melvin’s hometown is Charleston, SC, he eagerly jumped the border to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can follow him on Twitter @MelvinBackman
Melvin will be parked across from Svati in the NYC newsroom. Please stop by and introduce yourself, and join me in welcoming him.

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.