Joshua Topolsky

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Joshua Topolsky at the Engadget Show 2010

Joshua Ryan Topolsky (born October 19, 1977 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American technology journalist . He also worked as a music producer , drummer and DJ under his first name Joshua Ryan . Topolsky was the editor-in-chief of Engadget and The Verge , and now works for The Outline .

Career

From August 2008 to March 2011, Joshua Topolsky was editor-in-chief of the blog network Engadget . In 2011 he left Engadget with numerous colleagues , including Nilay Patel and Joanna Stern , and together with them founded the technology blog This Is My Next , from which the website The Verge emerged on November 1, 2011 . The reason for this were conflicts between Topolsky and Michael Arrington , the founder of the Engadget sister site TechCrunch .

In 2009, in addition to his journalistic work on the Internet, he became the technology correspondent for the program Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC . During one of these broadcasts on July 18, 2011, he announced the creation of The Verge . Fallon's move to The Tonight Show in 2014 was also made by Topolsky.

On August 4, 2014, Topolsky moved from The Verge to Bloomberg Businessweek , where he was given responsibility for a strategy change in the wake of digitization . Topolsky has been running the weekly podcast Tomorrow since April 2015, with one interview guest at a time, with whom he talks about trends in technology, current innovations and culture. Less than a year after being hired by Bloomberg Businessweek , Topolsky was personally fired by Michael Bloomberg on July 10, 2015 , after poking fun at Bloomberg's questioning of Topolsky's relaunched website.

On December 5, 2016, Topolsky launched The Outline website using venture capital from private equity firms .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joshua Topolsky, "Hello, I must be going" (March 12, 2011) , accessed November 20, 2017
  2. ↑ Jay Yarow, "AOL'S NEW PROBLEM: Mike Arrington" (January 12, 2011) , accessed November 20, 2017
  3. ^ "Joshua Topolsky, Part 1" (July 18, 2011) , accessed August 18, 2011
  4. ↑ Ravi Somaiya: "Bloomberg Hires a Founder of The Verge to Lead Online Initiatives" (July 24, 2014) , accessed November 20, 2017
  5. ↑ Ravi Somaiya: "Web Chief Joshua Topolsky to Leave Bloomberg as Staff Tensions Surface" (July 10, 2015) , accessed November 20, 2017
  6. ↑ Mike Shields, "Former Bloomberg Editor Joshua Topolsky Launches' The Outline" "(December 5, 2016) , accessed November 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Topolsky, Joshua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Topolsky, Joshua Ryan (full name); Ryan, Joshua (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th October 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh