Announcing DailyTech as our News Partner

AnandTech is going on its 9th year of operation and one goal I can remember from the very early days was to be able to do for technology news what we were doing for reviews. It was always so very difficult of a goal to accomplish, because whenever we would find a good news editor, we could always use that editor writing articles rather than news. As time went on, our article coverage depth and breadth increased, but we were never able to really attain our goal of being where I wanted things to be for news.

Over the past year, Kristopher Kubicki has done an excellent job of working on the short Insider Stories pieces here on AnandTech. Those are the quick 1 - 2 pagers that usually give you all of the latest roadmap, product naming and other interesting tidbits that come from his extensive network of contacts and sources. In fact, what Kris had done with his Insider Stories was effectively taken the first step towards achieving what we had sought to do for so long here at AnandTech - produce good quality news as well as reviews of products and technology. So it is with pleasure that I announce that Kristopher, along with two other former AnandTechers have moved on to run a new site, completely dedicated to technology news, called DailyTech.

You can head over to DailyTech to get the full story on what the site is all about, and you can expect much more content over the coming days, but basically their goal is to be for news, what AnandTech has been for reviews. With that goal in mind, and with the right people at the helm, I think it can happen.

Given DailyTech's focus and given that their founding staff is entirely made up of ex-AnandTech folks, it made sense that a partnership would be in order. So from this day forward, all news on AnandTech will be provided by DailyTech, our news partner. AnandTech will continue to be focused on reviews, the only thing that's changing is that the rightmost columns will now be populated by DailyTech.

The AT/DT partnership also allows all registered AT users to post using their current user name and password over at DailyTech (the same also applies in reverse). We thought it would make things more convenient, instead of requiring users to have two separate logins.

From an organizational standpoint, DailyTech is a completely independent entity from AnandTech. It's got separate editorial staff and a separate management team. There is also no sharing of editorial between DT and AT, since they are completely independent of one another, so you'll see DT report on things that we can't here at AT because we're bound by NDAs. At the same time, we may scoop the DT folks every now and then ;)

The common ground between DT and AT are our policies of integrity and putting the reader first. So you will once again see that with DT, much like AT, there isn't a single sales person on the team - the company is entirely editorial staff. All advertising sales are handled by a third party to further maintain a strict policy of separation between advertising and editorial.

Although I'm making this announcement here on the blog, if you've got any questions or comments about DailyTech and its content you'll have to head over there and ask Kris and the rest of the team.

I'd like to ask you all to give Kris, Brandon and Tuan a fond farewell from AnandTech and wish them the best of luck with DailyTech.

I'm hopping on a plane tomorrow to head to CES and of course, both AT and DT will be there covering the show.

Enjoy the rest of the week folks.