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MarketWatch hires Hankin to cover cryptocurrencies

Aaron Hankin

MarketWatch.com has hired Aaron Hankin as a reporter covering blockchain, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

He started on Monday.

Hankin previously was a staff writer at Investopedia covering everything from company news to macro-economic trends. After nine years in banking, Hankin turned to reporting, graduating from New York University with a Master’s in Business and Economic Reporting.

In banking, he worked for the National Australia Bank in New York and the Bank of New Zealand in Wellington, New Zealand, primarily focusing on foreign exchange trading. At National Australia, he was director of emerging markets trading.

Hankin holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Canterbury.

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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