Owen Thomas (writer)
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Owen Thomas | |
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 Photo of Owen Thomas by Mark Andrew Boyer | |
| Born | March 30, 1972 |
| Occupations | Blogger, journalist, entrepreneur |
Owen Thomas (born March 30, 1972) is an American blogger, journalist, and entrepreneur who serves as managing editor of the San Francisco Business Times.[1]
He was the founding executive editor of The Daily Dot[2] and former executive editor of VentureBeat.[3] He was the managing editor of Valleywag, a Gawker Media gossip and news blog about Silicon Valley personalities that billed itself as a "tech gossip rag".[4]
Thomas graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.[5] He is a 1994 graduate of the University of Chicago.[6] He first worked at Suck.com, and later at the former technology magazine Business 2.0.[7]
He was managing editor of the Silicon Valley gossip website Valleywag, before leaving to run NBC's local site for the San Francisco Bay Area.[8]
Thomas does some on-screen commentary in the film Revenge of the Electric Car.[9]
In 2013, Thomas was named editor-in-chief of ReadWrite.[10] He joined the San Francisco Chronicle as business editor in 2016,[11] leaving in 2021 to become a senior editor at the tech news site Protocol.[1]