CNET hires Guglielmo as editor in chief
Tech news site CNET has hired veteran technology journalist Connie Guglielmo as editor-in-chief of CNET News. Connie will direct all operational and editorial aspects of CNET’s global news team – from breaking news to thoughtful analysis and insightful features. She will work alongside Lindsey Turrentine, editor-in-chief of CNET Reviews. “Connie is a stellar reporter and […]
CNET editor in chief jumps to Coupons.com
Paul Sloan, a veteran business journalist who was most recently editor in chief at CNET, has jumped to Coupons.com where he will be head of communications. Cromwell Shuberth of the Silicon Valley Business Journal writes, “In addition to his time at CBS Interactive’s CNET, Sloan has worked at Fortune, Business 2.0, CNN Bloomberg and U.S. […]
Wood, CNET executive editor, leaving after 13 years
Molly Wood, the executive editor at tech news site CNET, has resigned and is leaving after 13 years. Wood writes, “I’ll be pursuing independent projects that I’m extremely excited about. More details on that will be forthcoming, and you can check my blog, TheMolly, for more. “I’ve had an incredible and, looking back, incredibly long […]
CNET sells reporter’s review to company as an ad
Tech news site CNET has sold a reporter’s review of a Samsung phone to the company eight months after it was published as an ad, reports Brian Morrissey of Digiday. Morrissey writes, “This past April, CNET senior editor Jessica Dolcourt reviewed the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. Under the headline ‘The everything phone for (almost) everyone,’ […]
CNET reporter joins The Verge
Casey Newton, a senior reporter with the tech news site CNET, has resigned to join The Verge, another tech news site. An item on the Vox Media blog states, “Casey Newton joins The Verge as a senior reporter. He was previously a senior writer at CNET, where he recently broke the news that Twitter is working […]
The Verge hires CNET reporter who quit
Greg Sandoval, the CNET senior writer who resigned in protest when the site’s parent company, CBS, interfered with its editorial coverage last month, has been hired by The Verge, the Web site that first revealed the full extent of CBS’s involvement. Brian Stelter of The New York Times writes, “Mr. Sandoval will be a senior […]
Consumer Electronics Association cuts ties with CNET
The Consumer Electronics Association cut its ties with CNET on Thursday, two weeks after CNET’s parent company, the CBS Corporation, prohibited the website’s editors from giving an award to an innovative product it deemed illegal. Brian Stelter of The New York Times writes, “The association’s announcement was a stern rebuke to CNET, a longtime partner […]
How CBS abandoned objectivity with CNET
Gary Shapiro, the CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, takes aim at CBS Corp.’s lack of objectivity in dealing with the recent decision to prevent its subsidiary, tech news site CNET, from writing about Dish and its products due to litigation with the company. Shapiro writes, “First, it destroys two reputations in a single action. […]
Arrington: Why haven’t more CNET journalists quit?
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch wants to know why more journalists haven’t quit tech news site CNET in the wake of parent company CBS Corp. decreeing it couldn’t give an award to a company that CBS was litigating. Arrington writes, “What I don’t get is why CNET staffers have stuck around. They’re the ones who are […]
CBS puts CNET in another unethical situation
Tim Carmody of The Verge writes that tech news site CNET is once again in ethical hot water because of its parent CBS Corp. Carmody writes that CNET’s story about live-TV startup Aereo is primarily a story about CBS’s lawsuit against Aereo instead of a product review. Carmody writes, “CNET’s news story on Aereo, written […]
