Ex-Bloomberg reporter joins artificial intelligence company
Jack Clark, a Bloomberg News tech reporter who left the company last week, has joined an artificial intelligence research company. Clark is becoming OpenAI’s strategy and communications director. He will help with community outreach, policy, communications, and strategy. He had recently been covering Google and artificial intelligence after joining Bloomberg in August 2014 to cover Oracle, Dell, […]
Bloomberg News seeks Google reporter
Bloomberg News is one of the biggest financial and business news organizations in the world. We lead the way in breaking news about mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other events, enabling readers, viewers and listeners to stay a step ahead of the markets. You love to break news, set the agenda for coverage […]
CNN hires Larson to cover tech
Selena Larson has been hired by CNN to join its tech team as a writer based in San Francisco. She will start Sept. 12 and spend her first week in the New York office. She writes about the intersection of technology, culture and human behavior. She joins CNN by way of the Daily Dot where she covered […]
Philadelphia Biz Journal hires new tech reporter
Michelle Caffrey has been hired by the Philadelphia Business Journal as its new technology and education reporter. Editor in chief Craig Ey writes, “Caffrey comes to the Business Journal from NJ Advance Media, where she covered Burlington and Camden counties for NJ.com and the South Jersey Times. In five years in South Jersey, she earned […]
WSJ seeks Apple reporter
Here’s the kind of business-reporting opportunity that doesn’t come around often: cover Apple for The Wall Street Journal. Apple is the world’s most valuable company, with products that inspire intense loyalty from hundreds of millions of users around the globe and a record of redefining the technology industry. But the company is not without its […]
WSJ hires Bloomberg’s Higgins to cover tech and autos
Tim Higgins, a reporter in Bloomberg’s Washington bureau who previously covered Apple, has been hired by the Wall Street Journal. Higgins will cover tech and autos and will be based in San Francisco. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2010, Higgins covered autos for the Detroit Free Press and politics for the Des Moines Register. Higgins has […]
The Information opens Hong Kong bureau; hires Bloomberg’s Oster
Tech news site The Information has opened a Hong Kong bureau and hired Bloomberg News reporter Shai Oster to run the office. Asia is one of the fastest-growing regions for The Information subscriptions. Oster joins The Information after reporting on venture capital and technology in China for Bloomberg, where he had earlier been an investigative reporter. Prior to […]
The Information, cash-flow positive, thrives with tough coverage
Matthew Ingram of Fortune.com interviewed Jessica Lessin of tech news site The Information, which is now cash flow positive. Here is an excerpt: One of the initial criticisms of sites like The Information was that since they would likely have a small group of paying subscribers from the executive ranks of large tech companies, they might cater their […]
Bloomberg tech reporter Clark leaves SF bureau
Jack Clark, a technology reporter for Bloomberg in its San Francisco bureau, has resigned. “I had a fantastic time at Bloomberg, and I’ll have more to share about what I’m up to next week,” said Clark in an email to Talking Biz News. He had recently been covering Google and artificial intelligence after joining Bloomberg […]
What’s inside a Microsoft dossier on a Fast Company reporter
Sophie Kleeman of Gizmodo wrote about what was inside a dossier of Fast Company senior writer Mark Sullivan compiled by Microsoft. Kleeman writes, “The writeup on Sullivan is both illuminating and entertaining—insofar as a corporate dossier can be ‘entertaining.’ It includes Sullivan’s areas of coverage, details on his ‘writing style,’ and his thoughts on Microsoft’s bot competitors, including […]
