TechCrunch’s Wilhelm on covering startups and their funding
Alex Wilhelm, a senior editor at TechCrunch, spoke with Mission North about covering startups and how they get funded. Here’s an excerpt: How many pitches do you receive a day? What do you look for when you get pitched? I probably receive 15 to 20 marked ‘important’ emails per hour, not counting everything Gmail filters […]
McCarthy departs TechCrunch for Bloomberg
Marcella McCarthy has joined Bloomberg’s new Latin American initiative, Bloomberg Línea, where she will be covering tech/startups and serving as the publication’s U.S. correspondent. Recently, McCarthy was at TechCrunch, where she covered Latin America, Miami and health tech globally. Her work has also appeared in The Miami Herald, The American Academy of Neurology, Yahoo, Yahoo […]
TechCrunch hires Hall to cover VCs, startups
Christine Hall has been hired by TechCrunch to cover 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, […]
TechCrunch taps Silberling to cover social media and consumer tech
Amanda Silberling will be joining TechCrunch to cover social media and consumer tech. Her new role begins July 19. Silberling is a freelance multimedia journalist who has been featured in Medium, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Mic, Yahoo, Observer, Vice, NPR and more. She served as an art and editorial assistant at Jacket2 Magazine, an online […]
Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch being sold to Apollo
Apollo Global Management Inc. has agreed to acquire Verizon’s media businesses, which include Yahoo Finance and TechCrunch, in a deal worth $5 billion, reports Micah Maidenberg and Drew FitzGerald of The Wall Street Journal. Maidenberg and Fitzgerald report, “Other suitors previously showed interest in buying off certain pieces of the media unit, which includes websites such as TechCrunch and […]
Climate editor Shieber departing TechCrunch
Jon Shieber, the climate editor at TechCrunch, is leaving the news organization. His last day is Friday. “I will continue to be writing things and doing things around the tech, politics, and culture confronting our climate emergency,” he wrote on Twitter. He has been focusing on the startups and funding being put behind renewables, environmental […]
TechCrunch senior writer Ha is departing
TechCrunch senior writer Anthony Ha is leaving the tech news website to become vice president of content at Eniac Ventures. His last day is Friday. He will start his new job on May 17. Ha covers media and advertising, writes the Daily Crunch newsletter, and co-hosts the Original Content podcast, which he will continue to do. He […]
Verizon looking to sell media business, including TechCrunch and Yahoo Finance
Verizon Communications Inc. is looking to sell its media business, which includes TechCrunch and Yahoo Finance, reports Benjamin Mullin and Miriam Gottfried of The Wall Street Journal. Mullin and Gottfriend report, “Verizon has cut jobs in the unit, and in November agreed to sell its HuffPost news division to BuzzFeed Inc. That followed a 2019 agreement to sell the […]
TechCrunch reporter O’Hear leaving for grocery startup
Steve O’Hear, a senior reporter at TechCrunch, is leaving the site to become vice president of strategy at grocery startup Zapp. Isabel Woodford at Sifted writes, “Donning his trademark hat, and tapping an enviable contact book, O’Hear has covered an entire generation of UK startups — penning some of the first articles about the likes […]
TechCrunch EIC: We’re still not dead
TechCrunch editor in chief Matthew Panzarino wrote Tuesday night about the changes announced by its parent company. Panzarino writes, “You may have seen an article over at Axios today about the rebrand of many of the Verizon Media products under a new Yahoo+ banner. I would like to congratulate all of the teams that have worked hard to build […]
