Savitz leaving Barron's for Forbes

Forbes Media announced Monday that Eric J. Savitz will be coming to Forbes as the new San Francisco bureau chief, effective Dec. 6.

Savitz will lead editorial operations for the San Francisco office while writing regularly for the Forbes web site and magazine.

“As Forbes continues to embrace the social media landscape, we are very excited to welcome aboard someone of Eric’s caliber and experience to lead the editorial coverage out of Silicon Valley,” said Lewis Dvorkin, chief product officer, in a statement.  “He possesses the perfect blend of expertise needed for this position, having covered technology and finance — both online and offline — from the West coast for more than fifteen years,”

Savitz joins Forbes from Barron’s, where he covered technology from the Palo Alto bureau since 2001, in addition to working at Barron’s and Dow Jones from 1988 to 1998.

During his more recent tenure at Barron’s, Eric wrote the monthly Tech File column for Smart Money magazine from 2004-2006; launched Tech Trader Daily, a popular blog providing news, analysis and insights on technology investing, in 2005; and took over the weekly Technology Trader column in 2006, while continuing to write his own blog.

During his first stint, Savitz opened the Palo Alto bureau in 1998, wrote the Fund of Information column about mutual funds, and launched Plugged In, a weekly column about tech investing.  Savitz also served as a copy editor at Dow Jones News Service, as well as a reporter for Dow Jones Professional Investor Report, a news service that tracked hot stocks.

In addition, Savitz served as executive editor of The Industry Standard, a San Francisco-based magazine covering the Internet economy from 1998 to 2001.