Ryan Tate, the New Valleywag Douchebag, as Owen Thomas goes to NBC
Gawker. Meh.
Owen Thomas, who has run the Silicon Valley gossip rag Valleywag for the past couple years, is leaving Gawker, the site’s parent company, we’ve learned. This move is a bad blow for the site which significantly cut its workforce a few months ago as it was rolled under the larger Gawker.com umbrella, and made into a column. – from Techcrunch
After terrorizing tech managers, Owen Thomas has decided to join ‘em. Emerging from the shadows to replace him as the Valleywag is Ryan Tate, who’s already relishing the idea of life in the sunshine. Owen took the Valleywag reins from our overlord Nick Denton himself and has fiercely worked his Silicon Valley sources for gossip and scoops. In December, Valleywag was merged into Gawker, and when we tried to talk him into staying, he said he misses the management headaches of running his own site. He’s keeping mum on his new gig, but we hear it involves the letters N, B, and C and will focus on Bay Area news. – from Valleyway Gawker whatever
Owen Thomas, who has been the editor of tech/gossip blog Valleywag for the past two years, will be Managing Editor of NBC Bay Area , one of a new series of regional online sites created by NBC Universal. The site is in beta. – from Beetofftv
