Reporter Patel departing The Information
Sahil Patel, who covers media and entertainment for The Information, is leaving the publication, reports Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker. Before joining The Information, Patel was at The Wall Street Journal reporting for CMO Today, with a focus on the ways that tech platforms, digital video and ad tech are changing the business of marketing. Patel was previously […]
Team leader Yurieff departing The Information
Team leader Kaya Yurieff is leaving The Information after four and a half years. As a team leader, she has been focusing on focusing on shaping its creator economy coverage and growing the franchise. Yurieff also has been writing its creator economy newsletter. Before The Information, Yurieff had been a technology reporter at CNN for the past four […]
Muppidi to cover OpenAI for The Information
Sri Muppidi, who joined The Information late last year to cover venture capital and startups, will expand on her coverage of the business of the biggest AI startups to become a beat reporter on OpenAI and Anthropic. Muppidi has regularly taken The Information’s readers deep inside the financial performance and projections of OpenAI, Anthropic and other fast-growing AI […]
The Information hires Roof as deputy bureau chief
The Information has hired Katie Roof to be deputy bureau chief of venture capital coverage. She has spent the last five-and-a-half years at Bloomberg News, most recently as a reporter on its venture capital and technology team in California. She has been a reporter on its deals team. Before joining Bloomberg in 2020, Roof worked for the WSJ Pro Venture Capital publication covering […]
McEvoy departs Forbes for The Information
Forbes staff writer Jemima McEvoy has left for a job at The Information. She will be writing tech features for Weekend, its magazine-style section. McEvoy covered billionaires and worked on Forbes’ flagship Forbes 400 and World Billionaires lists. She joined Forbes in May 2020 and works in New York. She’s covered everything from the lost billions of […]
The Information seeks an Amazon reporter
The Information is looking for an experienced reporter to lead coverage of one of the most important technology companies: Amazon. As the biggest online shopping service, the biggest cloud provider, one of the biggest entertainment companies, and an emerging force in AI, satellites, and robots, Amazon is a leader in several key industries in American […]
Wayt moves to the Musk beat at The Information
The Information reporter Theo Wayt has shifted beats and is now covering Elon Musk and his companies, including Tesla and SpaceX. He has been covering Amazon. Before joining The Informtion in 2022, Way was a reporter at The New York Post covering technology news. Wayt previously was a senior reporter for business and economics and social sciences […]
The Information’s Lessin criticized for not disclosing Zuckerberg friendship
The Information founder and CEO Jessica Lessin is being criticized for not disclosing her friendship with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg during a recent interview. Taylor Herzlich of The New York Post reports, “While the pair’s friendship is well-known in most media circles, Lessin made no mention of their relationship during the interview and there was no disclosure on the […]
The Information’s new show flops
Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker writes about how The Information’s new live show got off to a weak start. Cartwright reports, “TITV opened with host Akash Pasricha excitedly waving his hands around as if he were trying to perform a magic trick. Pasricha then brought on The Information’s VC reporter, Natasha Mascarenhas, who seemed truly oblivious to […]
The Information is launching a live video show
The Information on Monday launched its first live video product, “TITV”, hosted by reporter Akash Pasricha, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “The video format allows The Information to give its readers, who are mostly tech and business professionals, a peek behind the curtain into how the outlet’s editorial decisions are made. “Co-founder and CEO Jessica […]
