ReadWrite turns 15 years old this year. You may view it in the same category as TechCrunch and VentureBeat, as one of those go-to tech titles when Tier 1 turns you down.
Today’s RW reads like nobody’s home.
By David Strom, SWMS contributor ---
We have come to the end of an era. It is time to retire a professional title that played a significant role in my own life, that of the Editor-in-Chief, or EIC. It now has little significance for those in online publishing, perhaps because the entire editorial department has collapsed into a single individual.
Taylor Hatmaker isn't just The Daily Dot's tech editor, or just another ReadWrite alumnus that landed somewhere else. She's emblematic of so many post-PR player-coaches we see today in the "millennial" publications (and before we know it, everywhere else). She can report, write and edit, with a refined sense of audience and keen differentiation from competitors.
"My client wants a profile in the business press."
How many times have you heard that one?
Which well-known tech titles are on the rise? Which are falling? What are the hot new sites? A great way to find out is to analyze the Techmeme Leaderboard, a list of 100 tech web sites compiled by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Gabe Rivera and his team.
The New Yorker this week launched a new science and tech section edited by former BuzzFeed tech editor Matt Buchanan.
Less than six months after hiring Dan Lyons as editor-in-chief, ReadWrite has a new edit boss.
UPDATE: Jon left ReadWrite in February to build The Daily Portal.
"Point-of-view publishing" is the slogan at Say Media, and that is what new editor-in-chief Dan Lyons plans to deliver at the freshly repositioned ReadWrite.
