TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Owen Thomas, the executive editor of the VentureBeat tech news site, is leaving after about a year with the California-based news service.
Thomas had left Gawker’s Valleywag site in 2009 to be managing editor of NBC Bay Area, a new site. Before that, he was an editor at Business 2.0, the tech business magazine that Time shut down several years ago.
His career also included stints at Suck.com and Red Herring.
Messages to Thomas and VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall were not immediately returned.
UPDATE: Thomas confirms his departure in a post on VentureBeat, writing that the offer, “led to a hard conversation with my longtime friend Matt Marshall, in which I confessed that this new thing — a thing I’m not yet ready to tell you about, save that it will be awesome — haunted my dreams the way I know VentureBeat haunts his.”
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