How to Contact CoinDesk’s Editors and Reporters (the Right Way)

I’ve received some information which will sound prosaic nevertheless it’s lengthy overdue. CoinDesk now has a masthead.

Once I joined CoinDesk in 2017, one of many first issues I seen was there was no single web page itemizing all our editorial employees members and detailing their roles and get in touch with data. I would be the first to say it was a evident omission. 

For one factor, folks pitching tales or lodging complaints (generally authentic) had no easy strategy to discover out which reporters on our employees lined what, which editors managed them or whom to contact about particular subjects. Oftentimes pitches would go to the improper reporter or editor and get misplaced within the shuffle as messages have been routed and rerouted throughout the crew. 

“CoinDesk is a black field,” one trade govt complained to us final summer season, and never with out some justification. That’s definitely not what we need to be. We’re aiming to be extra accessible and clear, and within the coming weeks we’ll be taking further steps to appreciate these targets. All CoinDesk, reporters and editors will clearly listing the best strategies of communication of their bios. 

Most urgently, we’re additionally hoping to take the knees out from the scammers impersonating us on Telegram, LinkedIn and probably different social media platforms. As we beforehand reported, dangerous actors have been approaching initiatives providing the possibility to be featured on CoinDesk in the event that they pay just a few hundred {dollars} in crypto.

We’ve mentioned it earlier than nevertheless it bears repeating: CoinDesk journalists will NEVER settle for fee for an article. Anybody who makes such a suggestion is masquerading as certainly one of us, hoping to reap the benefits of you.  

However now we’ve made it loads simpler to contact us. On this web page you’ll discover our reporters and editors, the areas they particularly cowl and their e-mail, Twitter and Telegram handles. You may click on by means of to their bios for added data.

That is simply the beginning. In 2020, as we proceed our reporting in an area riddled with hype and histrionics, we’ll make it a precedence to be as clear as doable ourselves. You will see larger efforts to have interaction with our audiences, each on-line and offline, and invite you to attach with us and air your considerations or questions.

Within the meantime, you’ll be able to proceed pitching CoinDesk reporters tales by emailing them straight or contacting information@coindesk.com. Often, it’s finest to contact a reporter a few story inside his or her beat straight, and a concise e-mail explaining the mission’s background and detailing the information can be extra more likely to obtain a right away response. 

This official masthead for CoinDesk will not be as immutable as a blockchain, however at the very least now there’s one thing official for steering on who we’re. Wanting ahead to connecting!