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TechCrunch hires Weber to cover climate tech

Harri Weber

TechCrunch has hired Harri Weber as a senior writer to cover climate technology.

Weber has been at dotLA to cover venture capital as its senior reporter for the past year.

Weber had been with Flipboard for two years as its breaking news editor, editing and writing breaking news alerts sent to millions of readers. She also ran Flipboard’s weekly Climate Change newsletter and curate Flipboard’s first video product, Flipboard TV, and worked with the product team on quality control.

She previously was a senior news editor at Gizmodo and news editor and then executive editor at VentureBeat.

Weber also worked at The Next Web and WeWork. And as a freelancer, she’s been published in Fast Company and Gizmodo, among others.

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.

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