“Apple’s is continuing to make big changes in the friendlier post-Kate Cotton PR era with the announcement today that Chris Breen, the long-time senior editor at Macworld, has been hired by the fruit-flavored tech company,” Buster Hein reports for Cult of Mac. “Breen has worked at both Macworld and MacUser, but is making the change to working at the mothership after decades of covering the company as an Apple journalist.”
“Breen is the second big journalist hire Apple’s made in the past six months. Anand Lal Shimpi, the highly regarded tech reviewer and founder of AnandTech retired from the world of journalism last August without explanation,” Hein reports. “It was later discovered he had been hired by Apple, though his exact role at the company was also not mentioned.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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