Categories: OLD Media Moves

Industry Standard seeking an editor

Brad Stone of The New York Times reports Wednesday that The Industry Standard is seeking an editor in chief who will relaunch the tech industry magazine that crashed and burned more than five years ago.

Stone wrote, “According to people who have been approached by IDG about the magazine, IDG has hired San Francisco PR firm Porter Novelli to assist with the hunt for an editor-in-chief. Solicitations to interview for the job, along with the requisite non-disclosure agreement, are currently going out to Bay Area journalists with a technology background.

“Those people who have who have spoken with IDG said the company plans to start the relaunch with a Web site, which will include a predictive market like the Hollywood Stock Exchange, presumably to let people track startups and technologies and place bets on which will succeed.

“Such markets have shown remarkable power to augur coming events.

“The effort is being led inside IDG by InfoWorld chief technology officer Derek Butcher and strategy consultant Garrick Hileman. Thatâ€™s right: Derek & Garrick. At least this effort will be immune from easy criticism.”

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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.