The Information hires Thurm as a senior editor

Tech news site The Information has hired longtime technology journalist Scott Thurm as a senior editor. Thurm has been business editor at Wired magazine and was the former senior deputy technology editor at The Wall Street Journal Thurm has been at The Journal since May 1998. He became senior deputy tech editor in 2013.  He had been a senior editor […]

The Information hires Heeter for VC/crypto/finance team

Tech news site The Information has hired Maria Heeter to be a reporter on its venture capital, cryptocurrency and finance team. She will start in May. She has been a real estate reporting intern at Bloomberg News. She is an economics major at Scripps College and a contributor for The Student Life, the student newspaper of the seven Claremont Colleges, […]

The Information hires Nellis to cover semiconductors and hardware

Tech news site The Information has hired Stephen Nellis to cover semiconductors and hardware. He has been a technology reporter at Reuters since November 2016. Nellis previously worked for The Information, where he covered Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Amazon for two years. Before that, Nellis worked for the Pacific Coast Business Times as a senior editor, technology editor and a tech reporter. He’s a graduate […]

Bloomberg hires crypto VCs reporter, cybersecurity reporter

Mark Milian, a technology editor at Bloomberg News overseeing venture capital and startups coverage, sent out the following announcement on Monday: We’re pleased to announce the addition of two new reporters to the Tech team in San Francisco. Hannah Miller is joining us to cover crypto VCs and startups, and Margi Murphy will cover cybersecurity. […]

The Information taps Pasricha to cover VCs, startups and crypto

Akash Pasricha has joined The Information as a reporter covering venture capital, startups, crypto, bio and health. He was previously a business and technology reporter at The Seattle Times. His bylines have also appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and Financial Post Magazine. He was also a podcast host and producer at […]

The Information seeks a distribution editor

The current era in media has been defined by a battle between two forces: content and distribution. This has largely been chalked up to a media versus tech fight. For years, media companies ceded the distribution battle to tech companies—at huge expense. More recently they have realized the error of their ways and started focusing […]

The Information hires Mazzilli as NY-based editor

Meredith Mazzilli has joined The Information as an editor based in New York. She comes from Insider, where she was a deputy editor overseeing finance and legal coverage. Previously, she was a desk editor at Reuters with a focus on companies news. Mazzilli has a bachelor’s degree in history from Colgate University and a master’s […]

The Information hires Matousek to cover HR and corporate culture

Mark Matousek has joined The Information as a reporter covering HR and corporate culture in the tech industry. He comes from Insider, where he worked as a business reporting intern, transportation reporter and then as a senior transportation reporter. He has also worked as a contributing writer and has interned at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. […]

The Information hits 225,000 active users

The Information, a tech news publication aimed at the Silicon Valley and founded by former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin, is expanding its focus with a weekend lifestyle edition. “You can’t cover tech all day long without realizing it’s not just about the companies any more,” says Lessin, The Information’s chief executive. “It’s really […]

The problem between Facebook and tech reporters

Ben Smith of the New York Times interviewed Jessica Lessin, the editor in chief and founder of The Information, about the interaction between Facebook and technology journalists. Lessin’s husband used to work for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Smith writes, “Ms. Lessin said she sees a few patterns, and a lot of symmetry. One is that journalists […]