Crypto reporter Victor departs The Information

Jon Victor

Jon Victor, a reporter at The Information, covering cryptocurrency and blockchain from New York, has left the subscription-based website.

Victor plans to take some time off and return to school. He had been at The Information since June 2018.

He has won several prizes and fellowships for his journalism, including an award by the Press Club of Cleveland for breaking news coverage.

A native of Montreal, Canada, Jon studied philosophy and literature at Yale, where he served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News.

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.