ME Burns among the TechCrunch layoffs

Matt Burns

TechCrunch managing editor Matt Burns was among those laid off on Monday.

He had been with the company since 2008 and had been managing editor since 2017. He was also responsible for editorial content and moderators at TechCrunch events like Disrupt.

As a reporter, Burns wrote about consumer electronics, cannabis, mobility/automotive, and venture capital.

Burns holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint.

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.