TechCrunch reporter Lynley is leaving for Redfin

Matt Lynley

Matthew Lynley, a reporter at TechCrunch, is leaving the tech news site.

On Instagram, Lynley wrote:

A huge thank you to the TechCrunch team for giving me this opportunity — I’ve never had more fun at a job or worked with more amazing people. I’ve learned so much, and it was really an honor to be part of this family since early 2015.

Lynley is joining real estate service company Redfin as a data journalist to parse housing data.

Lynley previously was a business reporter for BuzzFeed and The Wall Street Journal.

At The Journal, he ran the paper’s “Digits” technology blog and directed live coverage of tech earnings and earnings calls. He also worked at Silicon Alley Insider and VentureBeat.

Lynley is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.

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.