Categories: OLD Media Moves

Business 2.0 editor lands at TechCrunch

Erick Schonfeld, who had been editor at large at the Time Inc. business glossy Business 2.0 that is being shut down after its October issue, is becoming co-editor of the TechCrunch blog along with founder Michael Arrington, according to Matt Richtel of the New York Times.

Richtel wrote, “No shrinking violet himself, Mr. Schonfeld says he and the opinionated Mr. Arrington should get on just fine.

“‘I know I agree with at least half of what he writes about,’ Mr. Schonfeld, adding: ‘He always believes heâ€™s right. Maybe weâ€™re alike in that way.’

“Any disagreements will have to be virtual. Mr. Schonfeld, 35, who lives in Brooklyn, will work from New York. Mr. Arrington will continue to operate Techcrunch â€“and his parties and conferences and other venturesâ€“from Atherton, Calif., in Silicon Valley.”

Read more here. Schonfeld has also been a senior writer at Fortune.

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.