Bloomberg hires Grush as space reporter
Loren Grush will join Bloomberg News as a space reporter. Currently, Grush is a science reporter at The Verge, where she has worked for over six years. Previously, she was an assistant editor at Popular Science. She worked at Fox News Channel as an anchor’s assistant and health editor/writer. She interned at KTBC-TV Ch. 7, […]
The Verge hires Minters as editorial director for audio
Brooke Minters has joined The Verge as editorial director for audio, overseeing its podcast operation, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel announced Wednesday. Dane McMillan of The Verge writes, “In her new role, Minters will develop The Verge’s audio slate, launching new shows and working to grow existing shows, which include “The Vergecast” and “Decoder with Nilay Patel.” Minters […]
Reuters hires The Verge’s Byford to cover markets in Tokyo
Reuters has hired Sam Byford to cover markets out of its Tokyo bureau. He will start next week. Byford has been at The Verge for the past 10 years, most recently as a senior editor. He was also its Asia editor and a news editor. He is a graduate of the University of Manchester.
Lopatto becomes senior reporter at The Verge
The Verge deputy editor Elizabeth Lopatto is returning to reporting as a senior reporter covering money, the internet and the culture of business. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor, and by 2015 Nieman Lab was referring to her as “Headmaster of The Verge Science Academy.” She built one of the best science teams in the business, covering everything from […]
Bloomberg hires O’Kane to cover electric vehicles
The Verge senior reporter Sean O’Kane has been hired by Bloomberg News to cover electronic vehicle startup companies. He will start in January. O’Kane has been at The Verge for eight years and has been a senior reporter since February 2019. He previously worked as a photo editor at Black Entertainment Television and at Martha Stewart Living […]
The Verge hires Faife to cover cybersecurity
The Verge has hired Corin Faife to cover privacy and cybersecurity. He will start in December. Faife is a data reporter at The Markup. He has worked as a reporter covering technology news in London, Montreal and New York. Before joining The Markup, he was a journalist and researcher at WITNESS, where he coordinated responses to deep fakes, […]
The Verge hires Sato to cover tech companies and platforms
The Verge has hired Mia Sato to cover tech companies and their platforms. She starts on Monday. She is currently a reporter on the MIT Tech Review’s Pandemic Technology Project, covering the intersection of covid-19 and the technology used to track and fight it. She was previously the audience engagement editor at The Markup, a nonprofit news […]
The Verge is limiting “background” talks with PR people
Nilay Patel, the editor in chief of The Verge, writes about the tech news sites new policy of limiting “background” conversations with public relations and corporate communications professionals. Patel writes, “The clear pattern is that tech companies have uniformly adopted a strategy of obfuscating information behind background. It’s also easy to see why companies like to abuse […]
Schiffer departs The Verge for NBC tech investigations team
Zoe Schiffer, a senior reporter covering labor and workplace organizing at The Verge, has left to join the tech investigations team at NBC. Previously, she has worked freelance for publications, including Vox and the San Francisco Chronicle. She began her career in tech as a content manager at a startup and was also a UX […]
The Verge’s Patel on tech journalism’s evolution
Nilay Patel, the editor in chief of The Verge, was interviewed by Delia Cai of Vanity Fair about the evolution of technology journalism on the website’s 10th anniversary. Here is an excerpt: Let’s zoom out to the bigger picture around tech and media from the past decade. How has coverage evolved from, like, its early, breathless gadget-review […]
