Axed MacTalk veterans form new consumer tech site
By Tim Lince in Media News on Wednesday, 12th June 2013 at 4:19pmNiche Media’s decision to cut staff from its sole digital-only asset, MacTalk, a fortnight ago has spurred a group of ousted writers to get together and form a new consumer technology brand, called Reckoner.
The site was launched on Monday, and will have two long-form features a week, along with a weekly podcast and shorter daily content. Editor James Croft, who was a regular contributor to MacTalk and runs an education technology consultancy called Go Make, told ITJourno that he didn’t want to create “just another tech news site — that's definitely played-out at this point”.
“We're not chasing the breaking news scene,” he said. “I think we'll do a very small amount of content compared to most other sites, but we w...
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