Oliver Darcy of Status reports that The Wall Street Journal has done a complete turnaround after blowing up its tech team earlier this year.
Darcy reports, “When Emma Tucker announced in early March that The Wall Street Journal would lay off much of its San Francisco-based technology team, the rationale was pitched as forward-looking. In a memo to staff, Tucker described a reimagined tech reporting desk—one that would move away from covering individual tech companies and instead focus on the broader role of technology in society. ‘The time has come for us to put in place a structure that fully acknowledges tech’s all-encompassing role in the economy and our lives,’ she wrote at the time. Specific company beat reporting, it seemed, was out. Something more thematic and cross-industry was in.
“But now, just two months later, the newsroom appears to be resurrecting the very structure it dismantled.”
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