LA Times names Muessig its tech editor
Ben Muessig of the San Francisco Chronicle has been hired by the Los Angeles Times as its technology editor. He replaces Russ Mitchell, who left the Times tech editor position at the end of the year after taking a buyout. Muessig currently leads the business news department of the San Francisco Chronicle, which covers the […]
Recode’s Ken Li talks tech news coverage
Ken Li is the editor in chief of Re/code, a tech news site started in early 2014 by former Wall Street Journal reporters Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Li has covered the intersection of technology and media businesses since 1997, watching the boom, bust and the return of innovation from New York. He has worked as a […]
Forbes hires Drange to cover tech
Matt Drange, a reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting, has been hired by Forbes. Drange will be based in the San Francisco bureau, covering tech and money and power in Silicon Valley. He currently covers Silicon Valley for the Center for Investigative Reporting, a position he has held since September 2012. Before moving to the […]
The top U.S. tech writers followed by other tech writers
Richard Laven, managing director of Apollo Research, writes about the top 30 technology writers in the United States who are followed by the most other tech writers. Laven writes, “The team at Apollo Research identified nearly 3,000 US based writers who have written about technology in the last 12 months and then found out who […]
EIC Owen Thomas leaving ReadWrite
Longtime technology journalist Owen Thomas announced Tuesday that he is leaving his position as editor of tech news site ReadWrite. Thomas writes, “Change is an eternal current in the worlds of media and technology. When I joined ReadWrite three years ago, it would have been hard to foresee everything the publication’s been through. Yet I […]
Bloomberg adds Barr, Rai and Wang to tech team
Brad Stone, global head of technology coverage at Bloomberg News, and Tom Giles, executive editor of tech coverage, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday morning: We’re excited to announce some big additions to the global technology team. First, join us in welcoming Alistair Barr, a journalist with two decades of experience, including a half-decade […]
Coverage: Alphabet beats expectations, overthrows Apple as world’s most valuable company
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced its first earnings report on Monday, and the results were positive. Not only did the company beat Wall Street expectations, but the good news boosted company shares enough to have Alphabet overtake competitor Apple as the world’s most valuable company based on market capitalization. Conor Dougherty of The […]
WSJ tech editor Krim is leaving paper
Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker sent out the following announcement: After six years at The Wall Street Journal, including more than two years leading our global technology coverage, Jonathan Krim will be leaving later this month to pursue new opportunities. As technology editor and San Francisco bureau chief, Jonathan has overseen the expansion of our tech coverage around the […]
Austin paper names new tech reporter
Lilly Rockwell, who has been covering City Hall for the Austin American-Statesman, has moved to the tech beat at the paper. She had been covering City Hall and an electric utility owned by the Texas city since May 2014. Before that, Rockwell was an associate editor at Florida Trend magazine, where she wrote feature and […]
How a Quartz reporter used code to break a news story
Ian Kar, future of finance reporter at Quartz, used his knowledge of coding to break a news story on Wednesday. The story was, “Venmo, beloved millennial app, is finally trying to make some money,” and Kar reported, “Pay With Venmo will be a payment option for people shopping within apps, similar to the PayPal button […]
