OLD Media Moves

LaCapra from Reuters joining NY Fed

Lauren LaCapra

Lauren LaCapra of Reuters has been hired by the New York Federal Reserve Bank as a content strategist.

She will start on Oct. 18.

LaCapra has worked in journalism since 2005, first in data visualization and then in reporting, editing, managing and spearheading digital projects. Most recently she was finance editor for Reuters in the Americas, and previously spent time at Fusion, TheStreet, The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal.

At Reuters, she oversaw a team of reporters covering large financial institutions, including how they operate in global businesses and markets, how they are regulated and how they are policed by enforcement agencies. Her remit included emerging companies in the financial technology and cryptocurrency space.

In recent months she helped launch a Reuters website vertical called The Future of Money, which examines the way banks, startups, consumers and businesses are embracing new ways of transacting.

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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