Categories: OLD Media Moves

Yahoo Tech editor leaving; site’s future uncertain

The editor in chief of Yahoo Tech is leaving the website, which has an uncertain future, writes Peter Sterne of Politico.

Sterne writes, “Yahoo Tech editor in chief Dan Tynan is leaving the company, he announced today in a farewell memo to staff Wednesday. A source familiar with the matter said that Yahoo was shuttering its tech vertical, which is anchored by former New York Times columnist David Pogue.

“‘Well, that was not entirely unexpected. Eight Hundred and Four days after taking the purple, my career as a Yahoo is over,’ Tynan wrote in the memo.

“Tynan joined Yahoo Tech as a columnist in December 2013; he was promoted to editor in chief in July 2015.

“Also Wednesday, Yahoo shut down its Yahoo Food vertical, according to Eater.”

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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.