Forbes hires four BuzzFeed tech news staffers
Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane sent out the following on Wednesday: Team, When we announced last month that John Paczkowski would join Forbes to lead our Technology coverage, we discussed how this was just the beginning of something amazing. Well, amazing starts today. I’m thrilled to report that four superstars who have learned and excelled under […]
News startup Semafor hires Albergotti to oversee tech coverage
Washington Post tech reporter Reed Albergotti has been hired by news startup Semafor to oversee its technology coverage. He has been The Post’s consumer electronics reporter, covering Apple and other hardware manufacturers, Albergotti previously spent years at The Information, where he wrote deeply reported stories on technology companies big and small, from the secretive and well-funded startup […]
The Daily Beast hired Bender as innovation reporter
The Daily Beast has hired Maddie Bender to be an innovation reporter. Bender has been a freelance reporter whose work has appeared in STAT, Scientific American, VICE, Men’s Health, Popular Science, Inverse, Massive Science, and others, and it has been recognized by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and national radio. She was a 2021 AAAS […]
Reuters seeks a European tech correspondent
Reuters is seeking an experienced and ambitious journalist with a track record for breaking news to cover the technology sector and the ever-changing policies governing the industry. The correspondent would shed light on the growth of the technology industry in the continent as big American companies jostle with home-grown rivals in areas such as artificial […]
Technical.ly seeks a Pittsburgh reporter
Technically Media, a digital media company best known for its local tech economy news site Technical.ly, is hiring a beat reporter for its Pittsburgh site in tandem with the Report for America program. We’re seeking someone who is eager to work a beat, file daily and build a network of sources in the region’s emerging […]
Politico hires Ng to cover tech policy
Politico managing editor Clea Benson sent out the following on Thursday: We’re pleased to welcome Alfred Ng to POLITICO, where he’ll join our technology team to cover the politics and policy battles around data privacy — from the ways companies profit from consumers’ information, to the wrangling in Congress over how to rein them in, to the […]
Farrell hired as editor in chief of CyberScoop
Michael B. Farrell has been hired as editor in chief of CyberScoop. He will start next week. He has been media director for Synack Inc. for the past two years. Farrell was Politico’s cybersecurity editor, overseeing a team of reporters who cover the intersection of policy, politics and digital security, from May 2018 to March 2020. […]
Peers, New York bureau chief of The Information, is leaving
Martin Peers, the New York bureau chief of tech news site The Information, is leaving for a new opportunity. His last day is July 1. Peers was previously managing editor of The Information. Before joining The Information in October 2014, Peers was media and marketing bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal, overseeing the paper’s coverage of the media and entertainment […]
Politico hires Roussi as cybersecurity reporter in Brussels
Politico Europe has tapped Antoaneta Roussi as a cybersecurity reporter on its tech team, based in Brussels. Recently, she worked as a freelance correspondent in Kenya. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Nature, The Financial Times, NPR, BBC and The Independent. She also provided editorial consultancy to the UN Environment Program and The World […]
The Information seeks a China tech reporter
The Information is looking for an ambitious reporter to join our team covering China’s vibrant and tumultuous startup and venture capital scene, which is second only to the U.S. in terms of size, scope and ambition. This person would be joining a reporting group that has broken some of the biggest tech stories, including discussions to sell TikTok and later […]
