Mashable hires Nuñez as deputy tech editor
Mashable announced Wednesday that it has hired Michael Nuñez as its deputy technology editor. Nuñez previously served as Gizmodo’s technology editor. Nuñez will oversee the daily coverage on Mashable’s tech channel, one of the company’s core coverage areas, which has seen its audience more than double over the past year. He will also be a […]
VentureBeat hires artificial intelligence reporter
Blair Hanley Frank has joined VentureBeat as a staff writer to cover artificial intelligence, big data, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise technologies. Blaise Zerega of VentureBeat writes, “Blair comes to VentureBeat from IDG News Service where he served as a U.S. correspondent and provided breaking news and analysis of the public cloud, productivity and operating systems businesses. […]
MarketWatch.com seeks a tech reporter in San Fran
MarketWatch.com is seeking a technology reporter for its San Francisco bureau. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS Monitoring the markets and social media and reporting breaking daily news in a quick, concise and accurate manner Finding and recognizing strong story angles for more in-depth articles Conceptualizing and executing enterprise and investigative articles Covering corporate earnings reports extensively* Explaining […]
CNN is expanding tech coverage by launching CNN Tech
CNN is expanding its technology coverage by launching CNN Tech. With this move the network is elevating its technology coverage from a beat to a standalone business more closely aligned with brands such as CNN Politics, CNNMoney and CNN Style. The site will be led by executive editor Sam Grobart who joined the network from Bloomberg Businessweek in March of this […]
Mossberg out: Last column is posted
Technology journalist Walt Mossberg, who is retiring, has written his last column for The Verge and Recode and begins by reminiscing about how it all began. Mossberg writes, “This is my last weekly column for The Verge and Recode — the last weekly column I plan to write anywhere. I’ve been doing these almost every […]
Bloomberg BNA hires Jeffries to cover telecom and tech
Morning Consult reporter Tara Jeffries has been hired by Bloomberg BNA to cover telecom and tech. She starts her new position on June 12. Jeffries has been covering financial policy and politics for Morning Consult, covering the intersection of Congress and the financial services industry, with a dash of tax policy, trade and occasional coverage of the […]
The Information’s Lessin: Information shouldn’t be free
Eric Johnson of Recode writes about tech news site The Information and its founder, Jessica Lessin, who spoke on a podcast with Recode’s Peter Kafka. Johnson writes, “‘Just because, as a publisher, you say, ‘I want to charge something for my content,’ it doesn’t mean you’re attacking society or against the freedom of information,’ Lessin […]
Layoffs hit IDG publications MacWorld, CIO
An undetermined number of journalists at tech publications owned by International Data Group such as CIO and MacWorld have been laid off, reports Kelly J. O’Brien of the Boston Business Journal. O’Brien writes, “The layoffs hit writers and editors in both Massachusetts and California at IDG subsidiary publications like CIO, Network World and Macworld, according […]
Wired hires Feinberg to cover politics and culture
Wired magazine has hired Gizmodo senior reporter Ashley Feinberg to cover politics and Internet culture. Her first day is May 30 in New York. She will be a senior writer, writing across all Wired sections. John Cook, the executive editor of the special projects desk at Gizmodo, wrote an email to the staff on Tuesday that stated: It is with […]
BuzzFeed hires tech reporter Mac from Forbes
BuzzFeed tech editor John Paczkowski sent out the following announcement to the staff: I’m very excited to announce that Ryan Mac is joining the Tech Desk as a senior technology reporter. He’s going to be covering the nexus of power, wealth and technology simmering in Silicon Valley. He’s also going to keep his eye on the […]
