WSJ hires Jin to cover VC and startups

The Wall Street Journal has hired The Information reporter Berber Jin to cover startups and venture capital. He will start June 13. He has been with The Information since March 2021 covering the intersection of finance and technology. He had previously been at Business Insider since October 2020 as a startups/venture capital fellow. Jin also previously […]

The Information seeks a visual journalist

We founded The Information in late 2013 with a simple idea: write deeply reported articles about the technology industry that you won’t find elsewhere. Since then, we’ve moved markets, gotten the early scoop on billions of dollars of acquisitions, and told you what’s happening deep inside companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.  We are a subscription-only […]

The Information hires Peterson to cover tech, finance and crypto

Tech news site The Information has hired Business Insider’s Becky Peterson to cover technology, finance and cryptocurrencies. She has been on the investigations team at Business Insider. She previously was also an enterprise tech reporter and a tech deals reporter. Peterson has been at Business Insider since June 2017 and is based in the San Francisco bureau. She previously worked […]

The Information is looking for tech writers

The Weekend section of The Information wants to publish great yarns about our technology-touched world. Pitch us! ABOUT THE COMPANY The Information is a global publication committed to original reporting and in-depth analysis of the technology industry. It is based in San Francisco and founded in 2013 by former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin. […]

The Information hires Holmes to cover enterprise tech

Tech news site The Information has hired Business Insider reporter Aaron Holmes to cover enterprise tech. He will start next month. He has been a tech reporter at Business Insider for the past two years. Previously, Holmes was a metro intern for Tampa Bay Times and before that, he held the post of managing editor at The […]

Why The Information is covering the creator economy

Simon Owens examines why The Information hired Kaya Yurieff to cover the creator economy and produce a newsletter about the topic. Owens writes, “From the very beginning, Yurieff’s role was designed as newsletter-first, which meant she needed to deliver a product to subscribers’ inboxes every evening, Monday through Thursday. “I was really worried about having […]

The Information seeks a senior money and power reporter

Who’s calling the shots in technology? Where are they pushing the industry? How are they influencing the larger culture? What are the power dynamics propping them up or tearing them down? The Information’s Weekend section is invested in exploring all of these  questions, covering the intersection of technology, power, money, and culture in Silicon Valley […]

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 […]