TechCrunch hires Clark to cover VC, startups

Kate Clark

TechCrunch has hired Kate Clark to cover venture capital investing and startups.

She starts later this month.

Clark has been at PitchBook since January 2017, covering venture capital, startups, and trends in emerging technology.

A Seattle native, Clark attended the University of Washington where she studied journalism and international studies. She previously wrote about the Indian startup ecosystem in Bengaluru and freelanced in the Seattle area. While in college, she interned at the Seattle Times.

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.