Wiggers departs VentureBeat for TechCrunch

Kyle Wiggers

VentureBeat senior staff writer Kyle Wiggers is leaving the news site for TechCrunch.

His first day will be March 28.

Wiggers writes about artificial intelligence for VentureBeat and lives in New York City. He previously was an SEO editor for Fatherly and also worked at XDA Developers and Digital Trends.

He is a graduate of Ohio 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.