Categories: OLD Media Moves

NYTimes considering new tech editor

The New York Times is looking to a new technology editor to replace Suzanne Spector, according to Kara Swisher of Re/code.

Swisher writes, “Replacements for the high-profile slot are being considered from inside the paper — reportedly one top candidate is Lydia Polgreen — as well as from outside.

“Spector is moving to the national section after what numerous insiders describe as an ouster, due in part to many defections of talent during her tenure from the section and tensions with many of those remaining. Those departures included such top names as Nick Bilton, Jenna Wortham and Claire Cain Miller, who moved to other parts of the news organization.”

Read more here. Spector had been deputy technology editor. She also had stints teaching legal writing at Hofstra Law School and editing at the National Law Journal and the New York Law Journal.

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.