Tech reporter Kar leaves Quartz for Acorns

Ian Kar

Technology reporter Ian Kar of Quartz is leaving the business news site to move to Southern California to join the product team at Acorns.

Kar has been at Quartz since August 2015 covering financial technology.

Before that, he was the founder and publisher of FinTech Today, where he conceived and developed the content strategy, monetization strategy, and partnerships for a fintech news and analysis website for high-level industry executives and experts.

Ian was an associate editor at Bank Innovation covering financial technology. He has been a correspondent for the Breaking Banks podcast.

Ian was previously a reporter for International Business Times and Benzinga, and was tech editor of Heavy.com.

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.