TechCrunch’s Cybersecurity Expert Departs, Sparks Industry Speculations

TechCrunch’s Cybersecurity Expert Departs, Sparks Industry Speculations

At a glance

• Key Departure: TechCrunch cybersecurity reporter Carly Page is leaving after nearly four years.
• Speculated Impact: Her exit comes as newsrooms cut staff, raising questions about security coverage.
• Career Shift: Page said she would return to freelance work.
• Industry Reactions: The cut raises questions about how tech outlets staff their security desks.

TechCrunch has lost one of its cybersecurity reporters. Carly Page announced in late April 2025 that she had been made redundant and that it was her last week at the publication, after nearly four years on its cybersecurity desk. Her exit adds to a run of cuts across tech media. It also leaves the security desk smaller.

A sudden exit

Page spent nearly four years reporting on cybersecurity for TechCrunch. In a LinkedIn post announcing the news, she called working on the cybersecurity desk “an absolute dream.”

TechCrunch remains one of the most-read tech outlets. Its security team, led by security editor Zack Whittaker, keeps reporting, but losing an experienced reporter leaves fewer hands on a beat that never slows down.

What it means for security coverage

Readers are asking what the cut means for future coverage. Cybersecurity has become far more important in recent years. Sophisticated attacks now threaten everything from personal data to national infrastructure. Good reporting helps the public understand those risks.

Fewer reporters makes deep investigative work harder to sustain, especially on stories that take weeks of digging through leaked data, court records and company statements before anything can be published. Competitors are watching.

What comes next for Page

Page said she plans to return to freelance work as a journalist, copywriter and editor. Experienced security reporters are in demand, at other newsrooms and at companies that need clear writing about technical risks.

Fellow journalists will be watching where she lands, and how TechCrunch adjusts its security reporting without her.

What it says about security journalism

Page’s departure is a reminder of how unstable journalism jobs have become, even on a beat as busy as cybersecurity. It may also open space for new voices and new ways of covering security.

Security stories are not getting any smaller. How newsrooms staff those desks will shape how well the public understands the threats it faces.

Who covers security now

Carly Page’s exit from TechCrunch is more than a staffing change. It comes as many outlets shrink, while the number of breaches and attacks keeps rising. Readers who rely on independent security reporting have reason to care which newsrooms keep investing in it.

Fred Templeton, CISA, CASP, SEC+

Fred Templeton is a practicing Information Systems Auditor in the Washington DC area. Fred works as a government contractor and uses his skills in cyber security to make our country's information systems safer from cyber threats. Fred holds a master's degree in cybersecurity and is currently working on his PHD in Information Systems.