Emma Wass
Emma Wass reports on crypto and digital scams for the BBC, using broadcast storytelling to show how complex frauds strip ordinary people of their savings and trust. Her coverage leans on real cases and plain explanations rather than market commentary, making the risks around digital assets concrete for non‑specialist audiences.
Crypto scams and personal loss
In her coverage of Traitors contestant Sam Little, she follows the story of how he lost £40,000 in life savings to a scam, treating the fraud not as a technical glitch but as a personal crisis. The piece builds around his experience, tracing the mechanics of the scam alongside the emotional impact and the aftermath of the loss.
By anchoring the story in a familiar television personality and a specific sum of money, she brings abstract crypto fraud into the realm of everyday financial vulnerability.
Her questions and framing focus on how such scams work, how victims are drawn in, and what the consequences look like in real life, rather than on the price of coins or the engineering of protocols. That approach sets her apart from generic crypto reporting that foregrounds markets and technology, keeping her attention on trust, safety and the human cost of failed protections.
Broadcast craft in digital finance stories
Her work on crypto is shaped by years in broadcast news and factual programming at the BBC, including local radio, regional bulletins and long‑form factual strands in the North East and Cumbria. She has worked across local and regional news in the North East since 2013, moving from radio into television and factual production.
That background shows in the way she structures stories around characters, scenes and clean sequences of events, even when the subject is an online scam or a complex digital product. She writes in short, direct sentences, avoiding jargon and explaining processes step by step, the way a broadcast script has to guide viewers through a report. The emphasis is on clarity and pacing: establishing the set‑up of the scam, the hook that caught the victim, and the specific actions that led to the loss.
This broadcast sensibility makes her crypto pieces accessible to audiences who might otherwise tune out of technical or market‑driven coverage.
Factual and regional storytelling
Emma has a long record of handling real‑world stories across local and regional news, often involving difficult subjects and ordinary contributors rather than professional spokespeople. Work in factual programmes for the BBC’s North East output has reinforced a focus on depth and sensitivity, with industry recognition highlighting her range of stories and maturity of storytelling. That experience feeds into her crypto beat: she treats scams and digital fraud as part of a wider pattern of consumer harm, institutional failure and the challenges facing people navigating new financial technologies. Her reporting style favours careful interviews, clear attribution of facts and a measured tone, even when dealing with distressing losses or complex systems.
Crypto, in her hands, becomes another arena where real people in real places are forced to deal with opaque systems and persuasive fraudsters, rather than a niche technology story.
Consumer‑focused coverage of digital assets
Across her crypto work, Emma positions digital assets within everyday financial life, treating them as products that can intersect with savings, entertainment and social media rather than as an isolated technical field. The Sam Little story links reality television, online culture and personal finance, showing how scams can exploit public visibility and trust.
Her questions gravitate to the safeguards that failed, the warnings that were missed and the practical lessons for others in similar situations. This consumer‑focused angle means she is more interested in whether people understand what they are buying, who they are trusting and how easily fraudsters can mimic legitimacy, than in speculative upside.
Communications around crypto, scams or digital finance that involve real users, emotional stakes and clear consequences sit naturally within the way she already reports.
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Alex Dovbnya is a staff writer at U.Today who covers the pressure points where crypto markets, regulation and security risk meet, with a focus on institutional fund flows and major infrastructure failures. He writes as both a trader and journalist, producing clear, data-led stories that track how digital assets move, break and get governed. Under the byline Alex Dovbnya and the alias AlexMorris, he has authored more than a thousand pieces for U.Today, CryptoComes and other fintech outlets. His work centers on XRP ETFs and institutional capital flows, crypto legislation and U.S. policy fights, large-scale security breaches and infrastructure risk, and market sentiment in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Across these strands he relies on precise on-chain, ETF and sentiment metrics, treating regulation, hacks and macro commentary as market catalysts rather than occasions for personality-driven coverage.
Alex McMurray
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Andrew Hayward
Andrew Hayward links crypto markets reporting with Web3 culture and gaming, using two decades in the tech and games press to give his beat a clear business-first lens. He most recently served as managing editor at Decrypt, after earlier roles there as culture editor, hub operations lead, and senior writer, and he now pursues new editorial leadership and content management roles while remaining open to freelance work. His coverage spans news, features, educational explainers, and interviews on crypto, NFTs, AI, gaming, and broader tech trends. He focuses on how listed firms and miners manage Bitcoin treasuries, balance sheets, refinancing, and risk, and how crypto tools and tokens show up in everyday gaming and digital life. He also reviews laptops and hardware for Tom’s Guide and has written on games and technology for more than 100 publications since 2006.
André Beganski
André Beganski covers the business side of cryptocurrency, focusing on how digital asset markets connect to traditional finance, regulation, and tax policy. He is a journalist at Decrypt. His core beat is how professional investors and major financial institutions interpret and move crypto markets. He writes often about Bitcoin and other major tokens, price cycles, analyst calls, and institutional sentiment. His work ties market moves to decisions made by banks, exchanges, and lawmakers, with attention to liquidity, trading costs, and structural pressures. He reports on U.S. legislative efforts that would reshape how digital assets are taxed and reported, and on policy debates as material market factors. He also writes across the wider crypto and blockchain landscape, including altcoins, Ethereum, NFTs, platforms such as Coinbase and FTX, and the legal regimes that govern them.