Daily Beast hires Hatmaker as senior tech editor

Taylor Hatmaker

The Daily Beast has hired Taylor Hatmaker as its senior technology editor.

She has been a writer at TechCrunch since November 2016.

Hatmaker has reported on the tech industry for nearly a decade. Before TechCrunch, she was the tech editor of the Daily Dot. Prior to that, Hatmaker was a staff writer and deputy editor at ReadWrite, a tech and business reporter for Yahoo News, and the senior editor of Tecca.

At TechCrunch, she mostly covers privacy and government. Her editorial interests include censorship, digital activism, LGBTQ issues and futurist consumer tech.

She is a New York University graduate.

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.