Forbes losing senior tech editor

Betsy Corcoran, the executive editor of technology for Forbes magazine, is leaving to start a company that will aim to bring more technology into classrooms, writes Ryan Tate of Gawker.

Tate writes, “She tells us her departure is ‘really and truly about my passion for education and technology’ — and not the relentless rounds of layoffs at her magazine.”

Corcoran is an award-winning journalist who joined Forbes as the magazine’s Silicon Valley bureau chief in 1999 and became a contributing editor in 2002. Previously Corcoran was a staff writer for The Washington Post. She joined the newspaper in 1994 and did award-winning coverage of the Microsoft antitrust case from Washington before establishing the paper’s Silicon Valley office.

Prior to joining The Washington Post, Corcoran was a fellow in the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a member of the Board of Editors of Scientific American. At Scientific American, she created and wrote a news section, essays on economics and a number of cover stories for the magazine.

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