MIT Tech Review hires Crownhart to cover energy and climate

Casey Crownhart

MIT Technology Review has hired Casey Crownhart to cover energy and climate.

Crownhart is currently a freelance a science and technology journalist based in New York.

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Crownhart moved to Boston to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned her B.S. in chemical engineering and Literature.

After several years working for a start-up in sustainable materials, Crownhart traded in her lab coat for a notebook and began her journalism career, earning her M.A. in Journalism from New York University’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program.

Her work has appeared in outlets like Atlas Obscura and Envrionmental Health News.

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.