Categories: OLD Media Moves

Fortune close to hiring six GigaOm journalists

Fortune magazine is close to announcing that it is hiring six journalists — or about one-third of the staff — of the tech news site GigaOm that closed down recently, reports Chris Thompson of the Poynter Institute.

Thompson writes, “Fortune Magazine will issue an announcement at 8 a.m. tomorrow, according to one of the sources. The new hires will comprise roughly one-third of GigaOm’s total editorial staff. GigaOm, the respected business and technology website, abruptly shut down last month.

“When GigaOm closed its doors last month, some of the most widely-read technology writers in the country found themselves without jobs. The sources would not say which reporters would be joining Fortune’s staff, but many former GigaOm writers have been published in Fortune in the last several weeks, including Derrick Harris, David Meyer, Katie Fehrenbacher, Jeff John Roberts, and Stacey Higginbotham.

“This story will be updated as more details emerge.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.