TechCrunch hires Korosec to cover auto/transportation

Kirsten Korosec

TechCrunch has hired Kirsten Korosec to cover auto and transportation.

She starts Monday.

Korosec has been contributing to Fortune since March 2014, covering the business of autos, energy, and tech.

She has also been a freelance writer for more than a decade, writing for The Verge, SmartPlanet.com, BNET.com/CBS Moneywatch, Marketing News, MIT’s Technology Review, The Hill and Environmental Leader.

She is also the co-host of “The Autonocast,” a twice-weekly podcast show discussing the latest in transportation technology.

Korosec also spent five-and-a-half years at CBS Interactive and BNET.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Regis University and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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.