TechCrunch reporter Hall is departing

Christine Hall

TechCrunch reporter Christine Hall is leaving the news organization after slightly more than three years.

She has been covering venture capital and startups.

Hall was a contributing reporter for Crunchbase News covering fintech, e-commerce, health tech, biotech, agriculture and food tech. Previously, she worked for the Texas Medical Center’s PULSE magazine and the Houston Business Journal from 2002 to 2011.

She also freelanced for various publications, including US News & World Report and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Hall holds degrees from Murray State University and Ohio State University.

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.