Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ’s Manjoo to become NYT’s tech reviewer

Farhad Manjoo, who joined The Wall Street Journal four months ago, is joining the New York Times business news section to become its new tech gadget columnist.

Peter Kafka of Re/code writes, “Manjoo joined the Journal last September, after a five-year stint at Slate. Pogue left the Times in November for Yahoo, where he launched a new consumer tech site this month.

“Late last year the Journal announced it had assembled a new team of reviewers to replace Walt Mossberg, who left the paper to start this Web site.

“I’ve asked Manjoo, along with representatives for the Journal and the Times, for comment.”

Read more here. At Slate, he chronicled the rise of mobile devices, Facebook’s ascendancy, Google’s rebirth under Larry Page, Apple’s transition under Tim Cook, and Amazon’s ever-soaring ambitions.

Manjoo is adapting his 2012 Fast Company cover story on Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook into a book for Simon & Schuster. Manjoo’s previous book, “True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society,” was published in 2008.

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.