TechCrunch hires Temkin to cover VCs and startups

Marina Temkin

TechCrunch has hired Marina Temkin to cover venture capital firms and startups.

She has been at Pitchbook for the past three years, based in San Francisco. Previously with Venture Capital Journal, Temkin wrote about the VC industry, and she was a reporter with Mergermarket in New York and San Francisco.

She also has been a financial analyst and is a CFA charter holder.

Temkin received an economics degree from the University of California, Davis, and she attended the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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.