GeekWire lays off cloud and enterprise editor Krazit

Tom Krazit

Tom Krazit, the cloud and enterprise editor at tech news site GeekWire, has been laid off from his job.

GeekWire decided to cut back on its cloud coverage and eliminated his position. He had been at the website since April 2017.

“I’m proud of the work that I did over the last two years there and would love to keep telling the story of this historic, seismic shift in tech,” he wrote on Twitter.

He previously covered technology for news organizations including IDG, CNET, and paidContent before serving as executive editor of Gigaom and the Structure conference series.

At Gigaom, he was news editor and then managing editor, managing a team of 16 technology writers.

At CNET, he was a senior writer for five years.

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.