Quartz’s crypto reporter leaves for CoinDesk

Joon Ian Wong

Joon Ian Wong, who covered cryptocurrencies for Quartz, has left the business news site for a job at CoinDesk.

Wong is now managing director for Europe and Asia for CoinDesk, expanding its events business and figuring out ways to educate and inform the influx of people to crypto, building on CoinDesk’s independent reporting and data services.

“It’s a rare opportunity to build a media and information business just as an entirely new industry is forming,” said Wong on Twitter.

Wong had been at Quartz since December 2015. Before that, he worked at CoinDesk for two years.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and philosophy from New York University and has freelanced for Londonist, Al Jazeera English, Skift, the Wall Street Journal Asia, The Edge Malaysia, CNBC Magazine, the South China Morning Post, Vogue Paris, DJ magazine, and the New Straits Times.

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.