Jon Rice is a crypto media executive and journalist who co-founded Crypto Briefing alongside Han Kao and Andre Cronje and currently serves as editor-in-chief of Cointelegraph. Jon Rice's Twitter Score is 71 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #13,285 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Jon Rice co-founded Crypto Briefing in 2017, one of the earlier dedicated crypto news outlets to launch during that period. He later joined Cointelegraph, where he built and launched the long-form Cointelegraph Magazine publication before serving a first stint as editor-in-chief during 2020 and 2021. During that period he helped scale the outlet to more than 10 million monthly views. He is also a founding member of the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers.
Jon Rice previously worked at Blockworks as editor-in-chief, joining in October 2022 and departing in July 2023. While there, he reported that CoinMarketCap's planned acquisition of CoinDesk was on hold amid talks involving Binance. He returned to Cointelegraph as editor-in-chief in August 2025, at which point he promoted head of editorial Geraint Price to deputy editor-in-chief. Across his career, Jon Rice has overseen newsrooms at three crypto specialist publications: Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, and Blockworks.
Jon Rice has been active on X since 2019 and has published 1,689 posts. He has been mentioned by 54 accounts, with 89 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Jon Rice include 230 founders, 37 angel investors, 130 influencers and 12 VCs. Among his notable followers are Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, David Hoffman, Andre Cronje, H.E. Justin Sun and Cointelegraph.