A gentler Valleywag is coming in 2015

Josh Constine of TechCrunch writes Wednesday about the impending changes at the tech news site Valleywag, where former Forbes and Newsweek tech writer Dan Lyons takes the helm in early 2015.

Constine writes, “When I expressed my negative opinion on Valleywag’s class war-mongering and the Mayer charity story to Lyons, he replied ‘I know what you mean.’ A more generalist approach could be in the cards. ‘I missed being a journalist and I missed writing about tech. I wanted a platform where I could write about tech everyday and make a living,’ Lyons tells me.

“That could be a shock to people who liked the unapologetic snark of the old ‘wag. Lyons seems interested in a gentler voice. ‘I’ve had a couple [stories] at Daily Beast and Newsweek where I thought, ‘Should I write this story or should I not? It’s going to piss people off, and people I don’t want to piss off.’’

“There are plenty of wrongs to be righted in the Valley, though, especially if Valleywag is concerned with more than just stoking outrage for quick-hit page views. But Lyons isn’t coming from quite as jaded a perspective as his predecessors. ‘I still find basic technology very interesting aside from all the soap opera stuff.'”

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