Network World infrastructure specialist Phil Hochmuth has joined Yankee Group, while NWW colleague Denise Pappalardo, who tracked service providers, will stay home and chill with the family this summer. Forbes.com lost tech reporter Dan Frommer this past week… no word on why or where he went. We learned this week that former Network Computing technical analyst Lori MacVittie has surfaced as a blogger at F5 Networks. Former eWeeker Peter Coffee is enjoying his new role as blogger/evangelist at Salesforce.com.
Experienced tech edit talent is leaving media at an unprecedented rate. Expect the trend to continue.
And now that it’s clear Rupert Murdoch will land Dow Jones, what exactly will become of the Wall Street Journal? Murdoch gave former Fortune chief Eric Pooley an unbelievably revealing interview this week at Time.com, seen here.
Murdoch told Pooley the following:
"What if, at the Journal, we spent $100 million a year hiring all the best business journalists in the world? Say 200 of them. And spent some money on establishing the brand but went global — a great, great newspaper with big, iconic names, outstanding writers, reporters, experts. And then you make it free, online only. No printing plants, no paper, no trucks. How long would it take for the advertising to come? It would be successful, it would work and you'd make ... a little bit of money.”
Hear about this and more on this week’s SWMS Tech Media This Week podcast
(7:07), which is now posted.
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