Gizmodo editor Biggs departs organization
Tech news site Gizmodo editor in chief John Biggs has left the news organization. He joined in July 2020 and was previously editor of Gizmodo from 2003 to 2005. He had been editor of CoinDesk since May 2019 before that. Biggs has two decades experience as a tech editor and journalist across sites such as CrunchGear and TechCrunch. […]
Gizmodo tech reporter Keck is joining The Verge
Gizmodo tech reporter Catie Keck is leaving the website and will join The Verge later this month. Keck has been at Gizmodo since October 2018, starting first as a night and weekends editor. She has been a staff writer since March 2019. She also worked as a senior editor at the International Business Times and as an […]
Gizmodo news editor Menegus laid off
Tech site Gizmodo has laid off news editor Bryan Menegus. “My colleagues were some of the best, smartest people on their beats and I’ll miss them dearly,” he wrote on Twitter. Menegus joined Gizmodo in February 2016 covering internet culture, became a senior reporter focusing on labor and most recently switched to editing. He previously […]
Gizmodo parent fired journalist because of activism, union claims
Online publisher G/O Media Inc. told employees of its tech news website Gizmodo that it fired a co-worker because of her union activism, the Writers Guild of America East alleged in a complaint filed with a U.S. regulator, reports Josh Eidelson of Bloomberg News. Eidelson reports, “In filings Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board, the union claimed […]
Senior consumer tech editor Cranz departs Gizmodo
Senior consumer tech editor Alex Cranz has left Gizmodo. She had been with Gizmodo since January 2016. “I am so proud of the work I have accomplished in concert with them, and I am particularly proud of the consumer tech team I managed, which is the largest primarily woman consumer tech team in U.S> media” […]
Gizmodo ME Jakola is departing
Kaitlyn Jakola, managing editor at tech news site Gizmodo for the past year, is leaving at the end of the week. “It’s still so freaking cool to me that I got to be a part of this amazing team, and I’ll miss it a lot. But I’m excited for what comes next,” she wrote on […]
Rowan joins Forbes Advisor as staff writer
Forbes Advisor has hired Lisa Rowan as a staff writer covering banking and personal finance. Rowan brings 10 years of reporting experience along with more than five years’ experience working as a marketing and communications consultant to the organization. Her bylines include Retail Dive, Racked (now Vox’s The Goods), The Washington Post and CityLab (The […]
Gizmodo hires Biggs to be its editor
Tech news site Gizmodo has hired John Biggs, who was editor of Gizmodo from 2003 to 2005 and has been editor of CoinDesk, to be its editor. Biggs has two decades experience as a tech editor and journalist across sites such as CrunchGear and TechCrunch. He has been at CoinDesk since May 2019. His work has […]
Gizmodo editor Bourdet to leave at the end of the month
Kelly Bourdet, the editor of technology news site Gizmodo, announced Wednesday that she will leave the site at the end of the month. She has been editor in chief for slightly more than three years. “I‘m proud of all that Gizmodo has accomplished. We’ve broken so much impactful news, celebrated the strange, questioned prevailing narratives, […]
Insider’s Jakola joining Gizmodo as managing editor
Kaitlyn Jakola is all set to depart Insider Inc. where she holds the post of assistant managing editor. She will start her new job of managing editor at Gizmodo next month. There, she will be working alongside Kelly Bourdet and Andrew Couts. Previously, Jakola was an adjunct professor at New York University and has also […]
