Date: April 20, 2021
Redwood City, Calif.
To: All my associates, colleagues and readers:
After 16 years on the publication and 10 years as an editor, I’m calling it a day as eWEEK.com Editor-in-Chief. James Maguire, a longtime buddy and colleague, will slide into the chair beginning April 22.
Mr. Maguire (at proper) has been editor of Datamation for a number of years, is a consummate skilled and receives my highest endorsement. He is certainly the only option for managing eWEEK’s mission going ahead.
[Photo caption, above: Three former eWEEK editors-in-chief meet up for dinner at John’s Grill in San Franciso in 2013. They’re posing with the famed Maltese Falcon of Dashiell Hammett’s book and Humphrey Bogart movie fame. Hammett was a frequent patron of the restaurant. L-R: Eric Lundquist, John Pallatto and Chris Preimesberger.]
eWEEK.com represents a terrific run for me. During my tenure, the model has been revealed by three corporations: Ziff Davis, QuinStreet and TechnologyAdvice. We began up options such because the Innovation part, Data Points, IT Science case research, eSPEAKS video interviews, Industry Perspective visitor articles, the favored month-to-month #eWEEKchats (since 2013), and our Product Overview & Insight library. That’s plenty of nice journalism.
Along with our award-winning protection of IT information and developments since its founding as PC Week in 1984, eWEEK has supplied its readers a treasury of greater than 110,000 articles (since 2000, and 1000’s extra earlier to that 12 months). It has been–and can proceed to be–a helpful and sensible on-line journal for IT decision-makers, software program builders, IT crew managers, traders and all these thinking about expertise and the place it’s main us.
I need to thank all of you to your assist and steering in making this publication what it’s immediately: a key useful resource that has recorded IT’s twists and turns, knowledgeable us about greatest practices and new merchandise, and arrange readers for what’s about to occur within the expertise house. Hopefully we’ve accomplished that job with a aspect of humor and humanity alongside the best way.
[Photo caption, proper: Chris Preimesberger interviewed Adm. Michael S. Rogers, former director of the National Security Agency, on the RSA Security convention in 2019.]
For a time, I’ll proceed to contribute to eWEEK.com as a author and occasion moderator (#eWEEKchats, panel discussions, webinars). So I gained’t be going far-off, no less than in the intervening time.
TechologyAdvice is an efficient house for this publication, and I need to thank CEO Rob Bellenfant for buying us and the opposite QuinStreet publications final 12 months and investing a lot time, effort and capital into the franchises.
Moving ahead, these of you with story concepts can attain me at [email protected].
Now for my private signoff:
Have a terrific remainder of your eWEEK!
Chris J. Preimesberger
Editor Emeritus, eWEEK.com
Redwood City, Calif.
