NY Times hires Phillips as financial markets reporter

Matt Phillips

Matthew Phillips has been hired by the New York Times as its financial markets reporter.

He started on Monday.

Phillips joins the Times from Vice, where he was editor in chief of Vice Money since its launch in October 2016.

Before starting Vice Money, Phillips was at Atlantic Media’s Quartz where he was finance and markets editor. Prior to joining Quartz in 2012, he spent seven years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal on the money and investing team where his coverage included detailing the aftermath of the 2008 housing crisis.

Phillips also covered the January 2009 splashdown of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 into the Hudson River and Hillary Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. He caught the markets bug as lead writer for the Journal’s MarketBeat blog.

He also worked at the Albany Business Review and the Bakersfield Californian.

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.