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Formidable London tech journalist Steve O’Hear dies aged 49 | Sifted

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Former London tech journalist Steve O’Hear has died aged 49 after a short illness, his team announced today. O’Hear worked for TechCrunch for over a decade and covered the rise of many of the UK’s most successful tech businesses, like Monzo and Wise. He left in 2021 to join food delivery scaleup Zapp as SVP of strategy and communications, and then two years ago founded strategic communications firm O’Hear & Co Advisory — its logo a nod to O’Hear’s trademark hat. When he made the move out of journalism, O’Hear gave Sifted the ‘scoop’ . Leaving journalism was “the hardest decision" of his life,

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