CyberScoop News hires Johnson as a reporter
CyberScoop News has hired Derek Johnson as a reporter. He has been at SC Media/CyberRisk Alliance as a senior reporter covering cybersecurity focusing on technology innovation and threat intelligence. He previously was a senior staff writer at Federal Computer Week, covering government-wide IT policy, cybersecurity and a range of other federal technology issues. Prior to joining FCW, […]
TechCrunch seeks a venture desk editor
TechCrunch, one of the world’s foremost sources of information on emerging technology, is looking for a San Francisco-based Venture Desk Editor who can manage a team of writers covering startups and venture capital. This includes coverage of investment firms, investors, entrepreneurs and startups and the stories of drama and glory beneath the business of building. […]
Renbarger joining Newcomer to cover startups and VCs
Madeline Renbarger is joining Eric Newcomer’s newsletter operation to cover startups and venture capital. She had been at Business Insider covering early stage artificial intelligence startups and venture capital before leaving last month. She previously covered industry power players to changing investment trends. Before Business Insider, she worked on breaking news videos for the Recount as a production assistant. Renbarger graduated from […]
Tech reporter Powers among the layoffs at The Messenger
Tech reporter Benjamin Powers is among the layoffs at news site The Messenger. He has been covering tech policy. He was previously at The Grid exploring the interconnection of technology and privacy within major stories. He focuses on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and how privacy concerns are reshaping technology regulations, among other topics. He has also covered cryptocurrencies […]
Fortune hires Del Rey to cover tech
Fortune magazine has hired Jason Del Rey as a technology reporter. Most recently, he had been a Recode senior correspondent. Del Rey has spent the last nine years reporting on Amazon, the e-commerce industry, and how technology is transforming brick-and-mortar retail. He wrote the book “Winner Sells All” about the retail battle between Walmart vs. Amazon and its effect […]
Kahn named AI editor at Fortune
Fortune magazine has named Jeremy Kahn its artificial intelligence editor. Kahn will be building out a small team to expand its coverage of this topic. Kahn will also be co-chairing Fortune’s three Brainstorm AI conferences this year, the first of which is in London in April. And he’ll be overseeing an expanded Fortune Eye on AI newsletter, […]
Longtime NC biz journalist Smith is retiring
WRAL digital business and technology manager Rick Smith, one of the creators of the TechWire brand, is retiring. Jodi Leese Glusco of WRAL writes, “WRAL is committed to continuing Smith’s legacy of leadership in tech reporting and the WRALTechWire brand with a high profile on WRAL.com. “Smith began his reporting career covering sports in 1966 and […]
Starks among those departing Washington Post
Tim Starks, who has been the author of the Cybersecurity 202 newsletter, is among those who have taken the buyout offer from The Washington Post. He has been at the Post since July 2022. Before that, Starks covered cybersecurity for CyberScoop as a senior editor and starting writing about the topic for CQ Roll Call […]
Garfinkle departing Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance reporter Alexandra Garfinkle is leaving the business news website for a new opportunity. She has been senior technology reporter since March 2022. Garfinkle has previously been at P&C Specialist, part of Money-Media, a Financial Times operation. Garfinkle was previously a reporter at The Deal, part of Euromoney Institutional Investor, where she covered consumer goods, retail […]
TechCrunch seeks a global managing editor
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge […]
