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Yahoo Finance and Fortune journalists joining Decrypt Media

Daniel Roberts

Yahoo Finance editor at large Daniel Roberts is joining Decrypt Media, which covers cryptocurrency and bitcoin news, as its editor in chief.

Fortune journalist Jeff Roberts is joining as executive editor.

“I’ve been a fan of the team there since its launch in 2018, can’t wait to help take it to the next level as the go-to place for clear explanatory coverage of this red hot industry,” said Daniel Roberts on Twitter.

Daniel Roberts covers sports business, tech, bitcoin, and media at Yahoo Finance. He hosts the podcast Sportsbook and the daily live show YFi AM. Before Yahoo, he spent more than five

Jeff Roberts

years at Fortune Magazine. He is the author of the 2013 book “Zoom: Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career.”

Jeff Roberts specializes in IP and bitcoin stories. He co-founded The Ledger, a new Fortune franchise dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrency. His book “Kings of Crypto: Coinbase and the Next Generation Finance” was published by Amazon Audible in 2020.

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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