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S&P Global reporter Melinek hired by Blockworks

Jacquelyn Melinek

S&P Global Platts reporter Jacquelyn Melinek has been hired as a reporter for Blockworks, which covers digital assets for investors.

She starts her new job on June 8 covering digital assets, specifically cryptocurrency.

She has been part of the S&P Global Platts team out of Houston covering petrochemicals. She previously interned for Bloomberg News on the Americas oil trading desk.

Before interning at Bloomberg, Melinek was an intern in the metro section of The News & Observer out of Raleigh, N.C., as well as a business reporter for the North Carolina Business News Wire.

Melinek holds a B.A. in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill.

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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