The Verge undergoes overhaul as it turns five
Nilay Patel, editor of tech news site The Verge, writes about how it will undergo some changes in the coming months as it celebrates its fifth anniversary. Patel writes, “So over the next few weeks, I’m going to be posting a series of pieces in collaboration with the various people and teams at Vox Media […]
Tech reporter Gage leaves WSJ
Deborah Gage, a tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal for the past six years, has left the paper. She writes, “Wednesday was my last day at The Wall Street Journal, as I too am moving on to try something new. In all these years of tech reporting, not a day has passed when I […]
Coverage: The end of the CrackBerry
Canada-based Blackberry Ltd. announced Wednesday that it would stop manufacturing its once-popular smartphones, once known as a CrackBerry for their addictive nature, after losing market share to Apple and others. Ian Austen of the New York Times had the news: Before being overtaken by iPhones from Apple, BlackBerry’s phones were so popular that they were nicknamed […]
Verge deputy editor worked at Apple at the same time
The Verge editor in chief Nilay Patel writes about former deputy editor Chris Ziegler, who accepted a job at Apple this summer and continued to work at the tech site while holding his new position. Patel writes, “Chris began working for Apple in July, but didn’t tell anyone at The Verge that he’d taken a new job until […]
Tech reporter Kar leaves Quartz for Acorns
Technology reporter Ian Kar of Quartz is leaving the business news site to move to Southern California to join the product team at Acorns. Kar has been at Quartz since August 2015 covering financial technology. Before that, he was the founder and publisher of FinTech Today, where he conceived and developed the content strategy, monetization strategy, and […]
Tech security site knocked off internet
Tech security site Krebs on Security run by Brian Krebs has been knocked from its servers after a massive attack, reports Paul Szoldra of Business Insider. Szoldra writes, “‘It’s looking likely that KrebsOnSecurity will be offline for a while,’ Krebs tweeted Thursday. ‘Akamai’s kicking me off their network tonight.’ “Since Tuesday, Krebs’ site has been under sustained distributed […]
San Jose Mercury News seeks assistant biz editor
The Bay Area News Group has an opening for an assistant business editor in our San Jose office to help guide the Mercury News’ coverage of Silicon Valley. We are seeking an experienced, creative assigning editor who can lead a talented team of reporters and columnists to produce breaking and enterprise coverage for multiple platforms in the […]
Coverage: Yahoo admits that 500 million accounts hacked
Yahoo said Thursday that a hack has resulted in personal information from 500 million accounts being stolen, which the company blamed on a foreign government. Jeff John Roberts of Fortune magazine had the news: The incident is a big deal, since so many have a Yahoo account of some type or other — for email or finance […]
Boston Business Journal seeks tech reporter
The Boston Business Journal is seeking a reporter who is able to marry strong traditional journalism skills – source building, sharp interviewing techniques, strong analytical and investigative reporting skills, clear writing, document use – with online and social media know-how. Whatever the platform, this reporter will produce original, exclusive content that is accompanied by perspective […]
WSJ hires Boston Biz Journal tech editor Castellanos
Sara Castellanos, the tech editor at the Boston Business Journal, is leaving the paper to become a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Castellanos will be covering emerging technologies being used by chief information officers at global companies for the Journal’s CIO Journal. She starts Oct. 10. Castellanos joined the American City Business Journals paper […]
