Mike Brennan is a veteran journalist, publisher, broadcaster, and media entrepreneur who has spent more than four decades covering the technologies, industries, and people shaping the future.
As Founder and Publisher of MITechNews.com, Brennan has spent the past 25-plus years reporting on Michigan’s technology economy, covering everything from cybersecurity, mobility, manufacturing, venture capital, and economic development to artificial intelligence, energy, and the emerging cannabis industry.
His journalism career began long before the internet. While completing a Master’s Degree in Journalism at the University of Missouri, Brennan participated in an international reporting practicum based in London. During that assignment, he freelanced for U.S. news papers while reporting from Northern Ireland during The Troubles and from Ireland during the rise of the DeLorean automobile project.
He later covered Silicon Valley during the formative years of the personal computer revolution as Lead Technology Reporter for the San Jose Business Journal. His career continued in Memphis, where he covered energy, utilities, manufacturing, and labor issues for The Commercial Appeal, and in Seattle, where he reported on Boeing, Microsoft, aerospace, labor, and economic development for The Herald.
In 1993, Brennan co-founded Pacific Rim News Service, an international business news organization that managed a network of more than 100 correspondents in 17 Asia-Pacific countries. Two years later, he joined the Detroit Free Press, where he covered Chrysler Corp., technology, telecommunications, innovation, and economic development before launching MITechNews.com in 2000.
Since then, Brennan has interviewed thousands of entrepreneurs, executives, investors, researchers, and policymakers while documenting Michigan’s transformation from an industrial economy into a center for advanced manufacturing, mobility, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, clean energy, and startup innovation.
In addition to publishing MITechNews.com, Brennan hosts MITechTV and Michigan Marijuana Today. He is also the author of the cybersecurity thriller Cyber Styletto, a novel that explored supply-chain security risks, cyber espionage, and hidden technology backdoors years before those topics became front-page news.
His reporting career has taken him from Belfast during The Troubles to Silicon Valley during the birth of personal computing, from Asia-Pacific trade markets to Michigan’s AI transformation. Throughout that journey, his mission has remained the same:
To help readers understand the technologies, businesses, and ideas that are changing the world—and what those changes mean for Michigan.