OLD Media Moves

The Points Guy hires Ruiz as credit card editor, Shon as reporter

Stella Shon
Juan Ruiz

Juan Ruiz has been hired as credit card editor at ThePoints Guy.

In 2013, Ruiz started a successful family travel blog (known as Double Duty Daddy) with the purpose of sharing travel rewards and points and miles redemptions with families.

He has since contributed credit card and travel content to numerous outlets, including Forbes, Business Insider and, of course, TPG.

In addition, Stella Shon has been hired to cover credit cards for The Points Guy.

She was recently the travel writer for ValuePenguin, specializing in travel industry trends and rewards credit cards. Previously a TPG 2020 summer intern on the points, miles and deals team.

She graduated with a journalism degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2020, and she previously interned at JetBlue Airways (her favorite airline) in summer 2019.

She just recently flew to Casablanca on a one-way business class ticket on TAP Air Portugal for just 12.5K miles.

Shon moved to New York City in December.

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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