<![CDATA[Valleywag: Jim Aley]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/valleywag.com.png <![CDATA[Valleywag: Jim Aley]]> http://valleywag.com/tag/jim aley http://valleywag.com/tag/jim aley <![CDATA[ Fortune editor in town to boss ex-B2 staff around ]]> ALEY.jpgRemember former Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner, whose tech magazine got shut down by parent company Time Inc.? Now an executive editor at Fortune, he outranks, on paper, assistant managing editor Jim Aley — the man he replaced as Business 2.0's editor five years ago. Which makes the following curious: The New York-based Aley, pictured above, is in town this week. Valleywag hears he started off his visit with a breakfast with Quittner. And then Aley met with the remnants of Business 2.0's staff, who now make up Fortune's San Francisco bureau — without Quittner. Remind us again who's in charge here? And if you want your startup written up in Fortune, who's the right guy to schmooze?

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Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:48:25 PDT Owen Thomas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=315238&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ A turnabout for Business 2.0's former boss ]]> Josh QuittnerALEY.jpgTime Inc. has officially announced Business 2.0's closure in an internal memo obtained by Jossip. In it, Time Inc. executive John Squires explains that folding in some of Business 2.0's staff into Fortune will give it "the largest San Francisco bureau of any major business publication." The Wall Street Journal bureau will still be twice its size, but never mind — we assume Squires meant "magazine." No, what's interesting in the memo is what's not said.

Former B2 editor Josh Quittner, left, will get the title of executive editor, and Squires gives props to his tech chops in the memo. But Squires doesn't mention that as such, Quittner will be effectively outranked by his predecessor, Jim Aley, right, who departed B2 abruptly in 2002 to rejoin Fortune after Quittner arrived to take over the magazine. From what we hear, Aley, an assistant managing editor and the director of Fortune's technology coverage, will be the de facto boss of the tech-focused bureau, not Quittner. (Full disclosure: Before joining Valleywag, I worked for both Aley and Quittner at Business 2.0.)

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Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:11:16 PDT Owen Thomas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=296809&view=rss&microfeed=true