Tech journalist Seth Schiesel has joined Microsoft as director of executive communications for Xbox. Schiesel joined The New York Times in 1996 as business reporter, before moving on to a role as technology feature writer in...
The Information is launching five new email newsletters beginning Monday, spanning topics around business, finance and tech, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “The first two new topic-specific newsletters, ‘Reality Check’ and ‘The Information China,”...
Tech site Gizmodo has laid off news editor Bryan Menegus. “My colleagues were some of the best, smartest people on their beats and I’ll miss them dearly,” he wrote on Twitter. Menegus joined Gizmodo...
Zoe Bernard, a reporter at The Information covering venture capital, is leaving the tech news organization. Bernard plans to freelance. She previously covered startups and tech culture at Business Insider before joining the Information in...
Ross Matican, a reporter at tech news site The Information, is leaving for a marketing job. Matican is joining Carta Inc. as its first-ever corporate affairs research analyst. He joined The Information in June...
Melissa Heikkilä is now covering artificial intelligence for Politico, and will be anchoring the weekly AI: Decoded newsletter. She will be based in London, but will be in Brussels regularly depending upon the pandemic...
Insider Inc is hiring a tech companies editor to oversee our Big Tech enterprise reporting team. The mission of this role is two-fold: To strengthen our reporting so Insider’s coverage of Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook...
Rest of World, a news organization examining the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble, has hired Michael Zelenko as deputy editor. “I’m super looking forward to having Michael join our arsenal of editors...
Politico has hired Julia Arciga as a reporter covering legislation around technology, cybersecurity and defense. She previously was a reporter at Law360 and at The Daily Beast. Prior to joining the Beast, Arciga was first a politics editor...
The Information CEO Jessica Lessin and senior editor Nick Wingfield sent out the following on Friday: Team, We’re excited to announce that Mathew Olson will be joining The Information’s team, starting Monday, to helm our soon-to-launch newsletter on...
