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Bishop, Cook bail on the P-I

Posted By Dylan On September 16, 2008 @ 4:12 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled

The P-I’s Microsoft blogger Todd Bishop and tech reporter John Cook quit unexpectedly yesterday ^[1], heading for a new role at the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Yes, there’s a Puget Sound Business Journal ^[2].

And apparently, they’re trying to do a Northwest-oriented tech news site ^[3].

I’m kinda wondering why, though. They both had a great platform over with the P-I. And if “newspapers are dead,” why jump to another newspaper? Maybe they have more freedom (and deeper pockets) at the PSBJ, but do we really need a regional TechCrunch ^[4]? For that matter, do we need another tech hype machine like TechCrunch has become?

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[1] quit unexpectedly yesterday: http://www.lostremote.com/2008/09/15/seattle-pi-bloggers-jump-to-business-journal/

[2] Puget Sound Business Journal: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/

[3] tech news site: http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/tech/index.html

[4] TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/

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