Bilton leaving NY Times for Vanity Fair

Technology journalist Nick Bilton is leaving the New York Times for Vanity Fair magazine, where he will write about the intersection of technology and business.

Bilton’s official title will be special correspondent. He has written for Vanity Fair on a freelance basis in the past. The magazine is known for publishing business journalism from writers such as Sarah Ellison and Michael Lewis.

Bilton, who had written the Bits technology blog for the Times, left gig to write for the paper’s Style section in 2014.

His first job was art director for Business Day. He then worked with Tom Bodkin and helped develop Times Reader, the newspaper’s first-ever news tablet app. Then he worked in the company’s R&D labs (a patent was granted for his work), before returning to the business section in 2009 as the lead blogger of Bits. He began writing his “Disruptions” technology column two years later.

His first book, “I Live in the Future & Here’s How it Works,” foreshadowed some of the seismic changes in the digital revolution. His second, “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal,” brought readers inside the culture of Silicon Valley.