When Swisher ruled the tech news field
Evan Ramstad of the Minneapolis Star Tribune writes about technology journalist Kara Swisher and her clout covering the industry. Ramstad writes, “No business journalist in this generation has carried more clout within the industry they cover than Swisher. On Tuesday, speaking in downtown Minneapolis to promote the book, she described how she became both loved and […]
Thrailkill departs Birmingham Biz Journal for Colorado
Birmingham Business Journal reporter Laurel Thrailkill has left the American City Business Journals publication to become a program content specialist at Colorado Access in Denver. She joined the Business Journal in May 2022 to cover health, tech and innovation. Thrailkill previously was a multimedia journalist for the Hattiesburg American and Clarion Ledger in Mississippi. While there she […]
Birmingham Biz Journal seeks a tech and innovations reporter
The Birmingham Business Journal is looking for a reporter to cover technology, startups and innovation. The ideal candidate will blend traditional journalism skills — source building, sharp news judgment, interviewing prowess and scoop-driven reporting – with online and social media know-how. Reporters in our newsroom don’t just turn in copy. They include videos, slideshows and […]
Starks rejoins CyberScoop News as senior reporter
CyberScoop News has hired Tim Starks as a senior reporter. Starks, who had been the author of the Cybersecurity 202 newsletter at The Washington Post, took the buyout offer from the publication at the end of last year. Before that, Starks covered cybersecurity for CyberScoop as a senior editor and starting writing about the topic for CQ Roll […]
TechCrunch hires Temkin to cover VCs and startups
TechCrunch has hired Marina Temkin to cover venture capital firms and startups. She has been at Pitchbook for the past three years, based in San Francisco. Previously with Venture Capital Journal, Temkin wrote about the VC industry, and she was a reporter with Mergermarket in New York and San Francisco. She also has been a financial analyst […]
WSJ seeks an editor to oversee AI coverage
The Wall Street Journal is looking for an experienced, creative journalist to lead our coverage of how artificial intelligence is reshaping business in the tech industry and beyond. You will guide a group of talented reporters writing about the most important companies and individuals in the AI boom, and about who is driving this technology, […]
Matsakis departs Semafor to start newsletter and freelance
Semafor journalist Louise Matsakis has left the news organization to freelance and start a newsletter called “You May Also Like.” The newsletter covers tech, e-commerce and China. She was a technology reporter and a deputy news editor with a focus on Asia news coverage for Semafor. Before Semafor, Matsakis had been on the NBC News tech investigations team, covering Amazon and […]
Washington Posts taps Fitts for tech enterprise, investigations editor
Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery sent out the following announcement on Monday: Alexis Sobel Fitts, who has guided some of our most ambitious enterprise, will be promoted to Technology Editor for Enterprise and Investigations, overseeing coverage of global efforts to regulate technology, as well as a variety of enterprise beats, including the growing influence of […]
Bloomberg hires O’Keeffe to cover US-China tech issues
Bloomberg News has hired Kate O’Keeffe to cover U.S.-China tech and national security issues. O’Keeffe wrote about U.S.-China issues previously at The Wall Street Journal’s Washington D.C. bureau, where she previously covered the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. Before moving to D.C., O’Keeffe did a six-year stint in Hong Kong covering the global gambling industry […]
Washington Post tech reporter Harwell on using AI
Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell spoke with MediaWise director Alex Mahadevan at Poynter’s annual meeting with its advisory board late February about artificial intelligence. Angela Fu of Poynter writes, “Though Harwell sometimes experiments with AI tools, he doesn’t incorporate them into his reporting and writing process. AI can’t replicate good journalism, he said. It can’t knock […]
