Several former eWeek journalists want their old jobs back, eWeek editorial director Eric Lundquist told us today.
One already got his wish: Lundquist says he will announce the return of a well-known former eWeek reporter later this month.
Sean Gallagher exited TechTarget in September to return as a contributor to eWeek's Channel Insider. A former lab analyst misses being able to test products before he writes about them, Lundquist says.
If Ziff Davis Enterprise's new executives have a strong 2008, expect eWeek to rehire much of the talent it lost to layoffs and panic departures.
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SWMS continues to study tech publishers who run vendor-contributed content as editorial, as PC World and CMP's bMighty.com currently do.
"How-to's, for example, are fairly agnostic and in some cases are quite close to what we would do ourselves," PC World editor-in-chief Harry McCracken told us last week.
What we're learning is that publishers must take care not to publish for free what sales reps are out in the field trying to sell. It may take time for tech publishers to craft policies that enable editors to acquire increasingly compelling vendor-generated content without undermining the sales staff.
Hear more about these topics on this week's SWMS Tech Media This Week podcast
(6:17), which is now posted.
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