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Senior editor Lacy to depart TechCrunch

Douglas MacMillan of Bloomberg News reports that TechCrunch senior editor Sarah Lacy, a well-known tech journalist, plans to depart the site.

MacMillan writes, “Lacy, an author and former columnist for Businessweek and co-host of Yahoo’s TechTicker video series, joined TechCrunch in 2009, before the blog’s acquisition by AOL. Her departure follows that of Michael Arrington, the TechCrunch founder who left in September to start a venture fund.

“Kiersten Hollars, a spokeswoman for AOL in Palo Alto, California, didn’t respond to requests for comment.”

Read more here.

Lacy is the author of two critically acclaimed books, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0” (Gotham Books, May 2008) and “Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos (Wiley, February 2011).

Lacy has been a reporter in Silicon Valley for nearly 15 years, covering everything from the tiniest startups to the largest public companies

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.

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Diddy Alliddy says:
November 17, 2011 at 7:53 pm
And don't forget: She was the only woman covering tech in the Valley since like, forever. Really. The one and only.