Categories: OLD Media Moves

Tech news blog GigaOm is closing

The tech news site GigaOm is closing down, reports Kara Swisher of Re/code.

Swisher writes, “I reached out to the online publication’s high-profile creator Om Malik for a comment and he declined for now. ‘Not now dude,’ he texted me.

“Well, then, for now, here’s what I could glean. The site, which was one of the first prominent tech blogs to launch in 2006, has recently hired a new CEO. It has, in recent years, has focused on its more lucrative research business, more than its Web news operations.

“‘More than 6.5 million monthly unique readers turn to Gigaom to better understand major technology disruptions and new business opportunities they are creating,’ says its website.”

Read more here. Founder Om Malik‘s statement is here.

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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