TechCrunch hires Azevedo as senior reporter

TechCrunch has hired Mary Ann Azevedo as a senior reporter.

Her first day was Monday.

Azevedo had been managing editor at FinLedger. Azevedo came to HW Media in June 2020 as fintech editor for HousingWire.

Previously, Azevedo was working as a senior reporter at Crunchbase News. She was also ranked No. 7 on Techmeme’s leaderboard for “Author by Presence,” for the ability to deeply report on, and break news in, the technology industry.

Azevedo has also served as Austin correspondent for Crain’s and has also worked as a real estate reporter at Silicon Valley Business Journal. She was also at Houston Business Journal for more than 6 years, joining as a reporter, technology and health care and then holding the post of assistant managing editor.

Additionally, Azevedo has also worked at CountryWatch.com, dbusiness.com, ICIS News, The Dispatch – Lexington, News & Record and OMNI Magazine.

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.