Categories: OLD Media Moves

Tech journalists Buchanan, Herrman hired by The Awl

Matt Buchanan and John Herrman are leaving their positions at The New Yorker and Buzzfeed, respectively, to work for The Awl, reports Joe Pompeo and Tom McGeveran of Capital New York.

Pompeo and McGeveran write, “The pair worked together at FWD, Buzzfeed’s tech vertical, before Buchanan left to become deputy editor of The New Yorker’s online science and tech vertical. Herrman rose to fill his position as Buzzfeed’s tech editor. Buzzfeed employees were informed of Herrman’s departure in a memo sent this evening.

“The Awl has been conducting a search for an editor in chief. Last week, Choire Sicha, co-founder of the site with Alex Balk, hinted to Capital that an announcement was coming soon about the position.

“And earlier today, The New Yorker‘s Nicholas Thompson tweeted that newyorker.com was seeking “another great science & technology editor.”

“It was not immediately clear what positions Buchanan and Herrman would take at The Awl, but one source said the understanding is that they will be editors at the site.”

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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.