Quartz hires De Silva as its cryptocurrency reporter

Matthew De Silva

Quartz has hired Matthew De Silva as its cryptocurrency reporter.

He previously was a writer at ETHNews, where he has been for the past 16 months writing about blockchain development and the cryptocurrency markets.

De Silva previously worked at RotoBaller as an NBA news desk writer.

He’s a graduate of Georgetown University in international economics and foreign service. He interned for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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.