Owen Thomas, the business editor at the San Francisco Chronicle for the past five years, is leaving to become senior editor at tech news site Protocol.
He will remain based in San Francisco and will start his new job in March.
“I’m really excited to start out overseeing enterprise and financial services coverage at Protocol,” he wrote on Twitter.
Thomas has been a journalist for more than 25 years, moving San Francisco in 1995 to work on the website of Mother Jones magazine. Other posts have included positions at Time Inc., NBC Bay Area, VentureBeat, the Daily Dot, Business Insider and tech news site ReadWrite.
He transformed the now-defunct Valleywag from a single-writer blog into a daily must-read for the tech industry. At Business Insider, he broke the news of Microsoft’s $1.2 billion purchase of Yammer.
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