Wall Street Journal technology editor Jonathan Krim sent out the following announcement on Thursday:
I’m happy to announce that Scott Austin will be moving his considerable talents from New York to San Francisco, where he will join Team Tech as a deputy technology editor.
In this role, he will direct a team of reporters focused on innovation, startups, early-stage funding, the ‘Net-ization of legacy things and more. He’ll also coordinate closely with the VentureWire team to maximize our combined resources.
Scott is uniquely suited for this role, having joined Dow Jones in 2000 as a spot-news wires reporter covering, among other things, IPOs that were going poof as the tech nuclear winter set in.
From 2006-2011 he managed the aforementioned VentureWire, while also writing a venture capital column for MarketWatch and a venture funding column for the Journal. Since 2011, he’s been tech editor on the Corporate/Marketplace desk, editing and driving stories and packages including the widely shared WSJ Wireless Calculator and the Billion-Dollar Startup Club.
A native of Dallas, Scott grew up an avid baseball fan, and played high school ball against the likes of future major leaguers Kerry Wood and Vernon Wells. Not being possessed of a 98-mph fastball, he went into journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He interned at Texas Monthly magazine and ESPN The Magazine.
You can follow Scott, who is secretly addicted to “Shark Tank,” the TV show featuring would-be entrepreneurs pitching ideas, @ScottMAustin.
