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Quartz hires Mureithi to cover East Africa

Carlos Mureithi

Financial news site Quartz has hired Carlos Mureithi to cover East Africa.

He replaces Abdi Latif Dahir, who left to join the New York Times.

Mureithi has been special projects producer and web producer for Daily Nation, a newspaper in Nairobi. He was also a contributing writer to the Times.

He was a graduate news reporting inern with Reuters in 2018. He holds a master’s degree from Cal-Berkeley and an undergraduate degree from United States International University.

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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  • I am truly elated to read about my former student Carlos Mureithi who has accepted a position in your organisation. As a mentor to Carlos I can assure you that he will provide stellar performances all through. Best wishes to your platform.

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