Categories: OLD Media Moves

Tech journalist going to work at Apple

Anand Lal Shimpi, the editor and publisher of the well-regarded AnandTech site, is going to work at Apple, reports John Paczkowski of Re/code.

Paczkowski writes, “Last night, via a post on the site he founded in 1997, Shimpi said he was ‘officially retiring from the tech publishing world,’ but didn’t say what he was doing next. ‘I won’t stay idle forever. There are a bunch of challenges out there :)’, he wrote.

“Unlike many tech publications, AnandTech focused much of its energy on the guts of new devices, via reports on chips and other hardware components. In Shimpi’s words: ‘AnandTech started as a site that primarily reviewed motherboards, then we added CPUs, video cards, cases, notebooks, Macs, smartphones, tablets and anything else that mattered.’

“Shimpi’s post also announced that AnandTech would continue publishing, and would be run by new editor in chief Ryan Smith.”

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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.