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Lawler returns to TechCrunch to focus on fintech

Ryan Lawler

Ryan Lawler, who worked at TechCrunch from 2012 to 2015, is returning to the tech news site to focus on fintech.

He will be working primarily with the ExtraCrunch team.

Lawler has been head of content at Samsung NEXT for the past four years. He was also a partner in the venture capital firm 500 startups.

At TechCrunch, he wrote breaking news and analysis about strategic business alliances, startup financing, leadership changes, and M&A activity. He previously worked at GigaOm.

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.

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