Valleywag editor leaving for The Verge

Natasha Tiku

Nitasha Tiku, the editor of the tech news site Valleywag, is leaving for a job at another tech news site, The Verge, reports Alyson Shontell of Business Insider.

Shontell writes, “Tiku, who recently relocated from New York to San Francisco, will be a west coast senior editor alongside Casey Newton.

“‘We want The Verge to be better at covering The Valley and we could not think of someone better than Nitasha,’ The Verge’s Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel told us. ‘We spent some time talking to her about the opportunity and how much more powerful her already-powerful voice could be on our huge platform.’

“Patel says The Verge now reaches 31 million monthly unique visitors. His goal is to expand from a trade publication, like CNET, to a lifestyle company, like GQ, or Wired.

“‘Most publications recognize how the products and culture of Silicon Valley have suffused mainstream life, but The Verge has been the fastest to reflect that in its coverage,’ Tiku says of her decision to leave Valleywag. ‘And as anyone in San Francisco will tell you, Casey is one of the warmest, most charming, and talented people here. I’m beyond excited to sit across from him and see what we can do.'”

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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.