San Fran Chronicle losses another business desk person

Jessica Guynn, a business reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, is leaving the paper to join the business desk of the Los Angeles Times, according to a memo posted on the LA Observed web site.

The Chronicle has also lost its business columnist David Lazarus to the Times recently, and business editor Ken Howe left earlier this month to move to Hong Kong.

Times business editor Davan Maharaj wrote, “Jessica Guynn has coaxed information from top Silicon Valley lawyers, trailed the Washington D.C. snipers and exposed a tax break designed to help the poor that instead enriched big corporations. All of those experiences will come in handy on one of the most competitive beats in business: Google, Yahoo and the other big Internet companies changing the media landscape.

“Guynn is joining The Times’ San Francisco bureau from the San Francisco Chronicle, where she wrote news and trend stories about Silicon Valley. She’s no stranger to multimedia reporting or hard work: On the day star high-tech banker Frank Quattrone beat government prosecutors, she broke the news on the Web, then wrote an 1,100-word story for the Business section and a 1,400-word story for A-1. Showing a keen eye for the whimsical, the trendy and the important, she covered stock-option scandals, the culture of free food at high-tech companies and the guy who decided to broadcast his entire life on the Web.”

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