Liao moving to part-time role at TechCrunch

Rita Liao, who covers Asia for TechCrunch, is moving to a part-time role in March with the technology news site.

Liao has a special interest in Chinese companies going global and web3 projects with real-world applications. Before her previous writing stints with Tech in Asia and TechNode, Liao managed communications for SOSV’s accelerators in Asia.

At one point, she worked for a documentary production company and a mindfulness retreat center in New England.

She studied political science and visual arts at Bowdoin College.

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.