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 […]
Verge promotes Gartenberg to senior reporter
The Verge has tapped Chaim Gartenberg as senior reporter, covering gizmos, gadgets, buttons, and USB-C standards. Previously, he was a news editor. Gartenberg has been with the Verge for 9 years, previously working as a reporter, covering beats, including general technology industry, gadgets through The Verge’s Circuit Breaker vertical, and entertainment. Before that, he was […]
Vox Media is acquiring a podcast newsletter for The Verge
Vox Media is acquiring Hot Pod, the independent news outlet focused on the podcasting industry for an undisclosed amount as part of a bid to expand offerings from its technology site The Verge, reports Brian Steinberg of Variety. Steinberg writes, “Under part of a deal being announced Tuesday, Hot Pod will become the first paid-subscription product offered by The […]
The Verge seeks a reporter to cover the politics of technology
The Verge is looking for a senior reporter to cover security, surveillance and the politics of technology. This reporter will lead our coverage of how new technologies are being used to exploit the vulnerable, whether in courtrooms, at protests, or in the workplace. That will also include coverage of emergent vulnerabilities and privacy risks as […]
The Verge hires Heath, Lawler, Keck
The Verge has hired three new reporters as part of an expansion, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer writes, “Alex Heath from The Information as a senior reporter for platforms, Axios has learned. His first story for the site will run on Thursday. “Richard Lawler will also be joining from Engadget as a senior news editor, and […]
