TechCrunch hires Zeff as a senior writer

Maxwell Zeff

TechCrunch has hired Max Zeff as a senior writer covering consumer news and artificial intelligence.

He previously was a reporter at tech news site Gizmodo covering artificial intelligence.

Zeff previously interned at Bloomberg News and Connecticut Public Broadcasting and was a production assistant at MSNBC.

He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts.

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.