Quartz reporter Backman leaves for New Yorker

Melvin Backman, a reporter at Quartz, has left the financial news site to become a fact checker at The New Yorker.

Backman had joined Quartz in November 2014 as part of its finance and markets reporting team.

He previously had been at CNN Money where he covered a wide range of financial and corporate news.

Prior to that, he had been at Debtwire, where he covered mid-market bankruptcies — companies with less than $150 million in funded debt. He also wrote about the Business Development Company industry.

Backman, who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013, had interned with Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. While a student, he won a SABEW Best in Business award in the student category.

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.