Tech journalist Malik dies at 59
Om Malik, a longtime technology journalist who later became a venture capitalist, died on Wednesday. He was 59. He was the founder of tech news site GigaOm, which he ran from 2001 to 2013. Malik was also a senior writer for Forbes, Red Herring and Business 2.0. Since then, he was a partner in True […]
Roose, Newton sign with talent agency
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, two prominent tech journalists and hosts of the New York Times podcast “Hard Fork,” have signed with UTA for representation in all areas, reports Corbin Bolies of Variety. Bolies reports, “The signing comes less than a week after Roose said he would leave his role as a Times columnist in August after nine years to […]
NY Times seeks a reporter to cover artificial intelligence
The New York Times is looking for a talented, experienced and versatile correspondent to join the tech pod on the Business desk to cover OpenAI and Anthropic as the artificial intelligence race heats up. At the core of the beat are two companies that are writing people’s futures with their fast-advancing technology and becoming the […]
A tech columnist departure noted by AI
Dwight Silverman, whose tech column at The Houston Chronicle is ending, writes about how his departure was recognized by artificial intelligence. Silverman writes, “All that’s true, but it has the dry, matter-of-fact voice common to AI. There’s even an em dash in that first paragraph, which some consider a “tell” that AI was used. Although, […]
FT seeks a San Francisco correspondent
The Financial Times is looking for a seasoned journalist with a track record of scoops and smart features to join the FT’s San Francisco bureau on one of the newspaper’s most dynamic beats. This person will lead our coverage of Meta at a critical time as Mark Zuckerberg bets the company’s future on artificial intelligence. […]
Washington Post hires Waldvogel to cover tech and AI
The Washington Post has hired Miriam Waldvogel to cover technology and artificial intelligence. She interned at The Hill last summer covering breaking news. Waldvogel was editor in chief of The Princetonian, the student newspaper at Princeton, during 2025. She is a 2026 graduate of Princeton University, where she majored in mathematics.
Tech columnist Roose departing NY Times
Kevin Roose, tech columnist and host of the “Hard Fork” podcast, is leaving the New York Times in August. Roose plans to start a new media venture with Casey Newton focused on artificial intelligence. “I can’t give too many details yet (there are still some domain names we need to grab, and self-indulgent manifestos we need to […]
The Information seeks a Google reporter
Google has never been more powerful — or more embattled. It overcame a slow start to the AI boom to become one of its biggest beneficiaries, with rapid growth across core businesses and a valuation second only to Nvidia. Now it’s racing to compete on AI models and applications, managing fraught relationships with companies including […]
Molla among the Sherwood layoffs
Sherwood News senior tech correspondent Rani Molla is among the layoffs this week. Sherwood is the media outlet of retail trading platform Robinhood launched in 2024. Previously at Vox, Molla has covered business and technology for more than a decade, including at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. She specializes in making information easily accessible through charts and graphics […]
Tech reporter Keegan among the Sherwood layoffs
Tech reporter Jon Keegan was laid off at Sherwood News on Tuesday. “Very proud of the work I did at Sherwood covering Big Tech and AI,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “Absolutely killer team of journalists that I loved working with.” Sherwood is a news service launched by retail trading company Robinhood, which cut 10 percent of its […]
