CNBC hires six staffers for digital editorial teams
Jay Yarow, senior vice president and executive editor of CNBC Digital, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: We are pleased to announce some recent additions to CNBC Digital. Jenna Goudreau has made a number of hires for our space at 1221 in New York as she continues to build out the Make It team. Leah Ginsberg joins Make It as […]
Bloomberg launching “Gadgets with Gurman” video series
Bloomberg is launching Wednesday a new digital video series hosted by consumer technology reporter Mark Gurman. The show, “Gadgets with Gurman,” will feature Gurman reviewing a new product each week highlighting key features, shortcuts and cost. Gurman will answer live questions from the audience collected on various social media channels, giving viewers the chance to […]
How tech journalism legend Walt Mossberg got his start
Shelley Hepworth of Columbia Journalism Review spoke with tech journalist Walt Mossberg, who is retiring in June, about how he got his start writing about personal technology. Here is an excerpt: You founded and wrote the Personal Technology column in the WSJ from 1991 to 2013. What got you interested in writing about tech just […]
Madrigal returns to The Atlantic to cover tech and business
Alexis Madrigal is rejoining the staff of The Atlantic, where he’ll write about technology, science, business, and trade. Madrigal was the technology editor and later deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com from 2010-2014. He has since been with Fusion, as the venture’s technology editor, editor in chief, and most recently editor at large. “Alexis is a super-creative […]
Mossberg: The most influential tech journalist, and a legend
Jim Bankoff, the CEO of Vox Media, sent out the following note about tech journalism legend Walt Mossberg, who is retiring in June: As a 30-something year old manager at AOL in the early 2000s, I first experienced the fear and anticipation of shuffling into Wall Mossberg’s Wall Street Journal office on Connecticut Avenue in […]
Tech journalist Mossberg is retiring in June
Walt Mossberg, the co-founder of tech news site Recode and former tech columnist for The Wall Street Journal, plans to retire in June. Mossberg writes, “Over my career, I’ve reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled […]
Engadget seeks assistant features editor
Engadget tells stories of the major players in Silicon Valley and around the world. We cover incredible, cutting-edge tech-born everywhere from government labs to local garages. We strive to be at the forefront of technology journalism, and we’re building a team that connects with, informs, and entertains a massive and growing audience. Job Description The […]
Business Insider seeks enterprise tech reporter
Business Insider’s tech team is looking for a full-time reporter to help cover enterprise and business computing — including software, hardware, and cloud services. Here’s what we need: A proven ability to write about business computing — and the companies and people behind it — in plain English without being dull. Experience covering Oracle, HP, SAP, Salesforce, IBM, Dell, Cisco, or other large-cap […]
Gizmodo’s Drummond joining The Outline
Katie Drummond, executive managing editor of Gizmodo Media Group, is leaving to become executive editor of The Outline, reports Peter Kafka of Recode. Kafka writes: Drummond will oversee all of The Outline’s editorial operations; she praised the work the site has done so far but says it can do more. “I would like to see […]
Fast Company’s Farr hired by CNBC to cover tech
Christina Farr, a senior writer for Fast Company magazine for the past 18 months, has been hired by CNBC. At CNBC, she will be covering biotech and health technology stories for its website. At Fast Company, she specialized in electronic medical records, health software, genetics and biotechnology. She will be reporting into Matt Rosoff, who […]
