Silicon Valley Biz Journal ME leaves paper

Leia Parker, the managing editor of the Silicon Valley Business Journal, has left the paper this week after two years.

Parker oversaw real-time digital news for the American City Business Journals publication. She also oversaw the publication of three daily email newsletters containing coverage of trends in Silicon Valley technology, real estate and economic development.

Before joining the paper in September 2014, Parker was Dow Jones Newswires managing editor for energy and commodities coverage in Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. She also worked for Dow Jones in New York as an energy reporter and supervising the U.S. petroleum team.

Parker received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She started at Dow Jones as a reporter and an assistant news editor in 2000.

Terry Forte, the lead designer of the Silicon Valley Business Journal, also left the paper this week. He had been there since 2014, and before that had been a designer at the San Francisco Business Times.