Re/code hires DeAmicis to cover startups

Tech news site Re/code has hired Carmel DeAmicis to cover startup companies.

Co-founder Kara Swisher writes, “Carmel will join a team committed to focusing intently on the developing tech and media ecosystem, reporting on its challenges, puncturing the hype and calling attention to the larger issues, from diversity to privacy to hacking, that flow from all this hypergrowth and the change that occurs every day. Liz Gannes, for example, is now zeroing in on big tech trends and innovation, using her keen analysis and longtime experience to give our readers more insight as to what it all means.

“To help us do that, we’re thrilled to have Carmel on board. She’s been covering the tech industry for almost two years now, first at PandoDaily and then at Gigaom. Obviously, we were sad to see that pioneering site close, but in her time there, Carmel has already proven to be a sharp observer of the tech scene.

“Prior to that, Carmel worked as a local TV news reporter in Dubai, interned at The Nation magazine, and survived Columbia Journalism School. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (and says she wants to live in the Bay Area forever).”

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