MarketWatch hires Cherney in San Francisco

MarketWatch.com tech editor and San Francisco bureau chief Jeremy Owens sent out the following announcement:

MarketWatchers and S.F. folks,

Please welcome MarketWatch’s new tech reporter in San Francisco, Max Cherney. Max started this morning, as most in the S.F. Bureau already know because they’ve had to listen to me talking endlessly as I show him the ropes.

Max has been in Bay Area journalism for many years as a freelancer and staffer. His freelance work for local and national publications included the first jailhouse interview with Shrimp Boy, a Chinatown gangster whose affiliation with a state senator led to a huge statewide scandal, and a scoop about Sean Parker trying to legalize weed in California. He previously covered e-commerce for IBD, with a focus on Amazon, and most recently was a staffer for J, where he investigated the rise in anti-Semitism at Bay Area schools since the election.

Max is originally from Toronto, Canada, and attended Trent University in Ontario before receiving an MFA at California College of the Arts. He has the Canadian equivalent of a Series 7 license and has been building his own computers since childhood, so he is excited for the chance to write about tech and finance.

Please introduce yourself in person if you are in S.F., or by Slack or email (once we get him up and rolling on those).

Thanks,