TechCrunch hires O’Kane as senior transportation reporter

Sean O'Kane

Sean O’Kane

TechCrunch has hired Sean O’Kane to be its senior transportation reporter.

He previously was at Bloomberg News covering electronic vehicle startup companies and was based in Texas. He started at Bloomberg in January 2022.

O’Kane had been at The Verge for eight years and has been a senior reporter since February 2019.

He previously worked as a photo editor at Black Entertainment Television and at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

O’Kane is a Hoftsra University graduate.

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.