American Lawyer seeks business of law reporter in California

The American Lawyer, an award-winning website and magazine and a definitive source for the nation’s legal community, seeks a smart and energetic reporter to cover the leading law firms in San Francisco and Silicon Valley with a focus on attorneys integral to the region’s innovation economy. We’re on top of the leading business news every […]

BuzzFeed seeks deputy tech editor in San Francisco

BuzzFeed News is seeking a smart, capable and dogged Deputy Technology Editor in our San Francisco bureau to take our technology coverage to the next level. This is a highly ambitious bureau, with an amazing team of reporters and editors. The successful candidate will share that drive and ambition, and will report to the bureau’s […]

WSJ hires Abkowitz to cover tech in China

Alyssa Abkowitz has been hired to cover technology for The Wall Street Journal in China. Abkowitz has been freelancing from China for the past two and a half years and also helping to coordinate the Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women International Summit in Hong Kong. Before that, she worked at The Journal in New York covering luxury […]

Fortune.com hits 20 million users, hires more staff

Fortune editor in chief Alan Murray sent out the following announcement on Friday: Congratulations for taking Fortune.com over our target of 20 million unique users in the month of March (Omniture.)  It’s an amazing accomplishment, especially for a website that didn’t exist two years ago. It was a true team effort, for which you all […]

Elmer-Dewitt says goodbye to Fortune

Philip Elmer-Dewitt of Fortune says goodbye to the magazine and hello to his new website covering Apple, co-founded by Steve Jobs. Elmer-Dewitt writes, “1983 was also the year Time named the computer Machine of the Year. Jobs, who thought he was going to be named Man of the Year, read the issue and burst into […]

Tech editor of TheStreet.com is leaving

Chris Ciaccia, the tech editor of TheStreet.com, is leaving the financial news site for a job at Group SJR, a subsidiary of WPP. His last day is April 8. Group SJR is a digital consulting firm specializing in insights, content creation, curation and audience development. “I’m incredibly excited to join Group SJR and WPP at a […]

IB Times layoffs include tech reporters, labor reporter

Peter Sterne of Politico has names of some of the journalists who were laid off by the International Business Times on Thursday. Sterne writes, “At least fifteen editorial employees were laid off on Thursday. They include: enterprise editor John Simons, deputy tech editor Paul McDougall, social media editor James Sienkievic, Silicon Valley correspondent Salvador Rodriguez, […]

WSJ seeks big data reporter

The Wall Street Journal’s technology team in San Francisco is looking for an experienced, energetic reporter to cover big data and artificial intelligence. The job entails writing about this fast-moving subject as both a phenomenon and an emerging industry, delivering stories that explain how major developments are affecting the real-life experiences and behaviors of businesses […]

Coverage: Starboard Value plans to dismantle Yahoo’s board

Marissa Mayer is having a tough Thursday, upon the revelation that hedge fund Starboard Value LP was working to remove the entire Yahoo Inc. board of directors, putting the company at risk of a difficult proxy fight. David Benoit and Douglas Macmillan of The Wall Street Journal first reported the day’s news: Hedge fund Starboard Value […]

Fortune’s Elmer-Dewitt on striking out on his own

Fortune writer Philip Elmer-Dewitt was interviewed by “Full Disclosure” host Roben Farzad about leaving Time Inc. after 36 years to start a website covering Apple dubbed Apple 3.0. “I should have done this years ago, frankly,” said Elmer-Dewitt, 66. “Other people have proved that you can make a living writing about Apple on your own. You don’t […]