Om Malik to step back from GigaOm

Om Malik, the founder of the GigaOm site that covers tech news, writes about reducing his role at the company.

Malik writes, “I have decided that it is time for me to no longer be involved in day-to-day operations. I’m looking forward to a long-needed break after more than 25 years at the daily grind of writing the first draft of history.

“While I will continue to write, it will be at a more measured frequency. I will be at most of our events. (I hope to see you all at Structure Data, March 19th and 20th in New York City.) I am looking forward to co-hosting Roadmap, our experience and design conference, with Katie Fehrenbacher in November 2014 and we will soon announce further details.

“I will remain on the board of directors at Gigaom and will spend all my energies as an assistant to Paul and the rest of our stellar team. I am so proud that what started as a solo WordPress blog seven years ago has blossomed into a modern media company.

“Our editorial operations are in good hands. Tom Krazit, our executive editor, is a man of many talents and has the youthful vigor to help nurture and grow a media entity for a 24-hour life cycle. Krazit, along with my editorial colleagues, including my longtime friends Katie Fehrenbacher and Stacey Higginbotham, are great stewards of what we have all built together. It’s an editorial approach that is built on simple principles: We love technology, we write with passion and we vow to treat our readers’ time and intelligence with respect by giving them the most complete picture of our modern technology world.”

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