Morning Brew hired Tom McKay to run its forthcoming IT Brew newsletter. Morning Brew also will launch F2F events this fall and is moving into spacious new digs in NYC… Taylor Locke is Fortune’s newest crypto reporter… Scott Thurm left Wired to join The Information as senior editor, reuniting with several of his former WSJ colleagues… Max Ufberg has joined Fast Company as senior staff editor, helping out global technology editor Harry McCracken… BuzzFeed News laid off top editors and may not be around for much longer… former BuzzFeed and TechCrunch reporter Matthew Lynley is now an AI and big data correspondent for Insider, returning to journalism after a four-year absence.