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Fortune’s Morris joining CoinDesk

David Z Morris

Fortune magazine staffer David Z. Morris is joining CoinDesk as its chief insights columnist.

Morris has been with Fortune since June 2019.

He has been writing about cryptocurrency since 2013, when his coverage for Fortune was among the first serious treatments of the topic in the mainstream press. He covered the announcement of Ethereum by a teenage Vitalik Buterin, the Bitcoin block-size wars, and the rise and fall of ICOs for outlets including Fortune, Slate, and the Atlantic.

In 2018, he joined the short-lived but hugely influential Breaker Mag. After Breaker’s demise he joined the Fortune staff, editing the Ledger fintech newsletter while reporting on topics from cybersecurity to politics to vaccine technology.

Morris was previously a freelance writer with bylines in Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur and other outlets. Morris is a graduate of the University of Texas.

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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