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Valleywag editor Lyons steps down

Dan Lyons, the technology journalist who took over Valleywag earlier this year, is stepping down.

Lyons writes, “While all this was happening I sold a book, Disrupted, which I need to deliver by the end of this year. It’s a memoir of my ridiculous attempt to reinvent myself and start a new career as a marketing person inside a software company during the second tech bubble. It’s funny! If you work in Silicon Valley, you will relate.

“Bad news: Working on my health and writing the book will consume most of my time, which means I need to step away from my full-time role at Valleywag. I may write a column once a week, but full-time blogging is out of the question.

“I’m a little bit heartbroken. I’ve always been a huge fan of Gawker. For years I have wanted to work here. To me, Gawker is a modern-day Spy magazine, or an American version of Private Eye.”

Read more 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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  • Since leaving Newsweek, Dan has tried very hard to remain a top journalist but there's so few remaining places to do that job. He wants to write about tech, and not gossip about rich tech people. I wish Dan well and look forward to his book.

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