Azevedo leaving Crunchbase for Housing Wire

Mary Ann Azevedo, a reporter for Crunchbase News in Austin, Texas, is leaving for a job at Housing Wire.

She will start on June 22 and be Housing Wire’s fintech editor.

Azevedo was hired as a senior reporter for Crunchbase in October 2018 after working for the publication as a freelancer for 18 months.

“I am honored to have covered such a wide variety of topics and interviewed so many smart and fascinating people. I will always treasure my time here,” she wrote on Twitter.

Azevedo has worked for the Houston Business Journal covering technology and health care, as well as a stint as its assistant managing editor. She also worked for the Silicon Valley Business Journal covering real estate.

She has also been a regular contributor to the San Francisco Business Times, Crain’s, The Network, Venture Capital Journal and SpareFoot.

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.