Folks at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are stunned today after the newspaper’s top two technology reporters/bloggers simultaneously quit to join the Puget Sound Business Journal. John Cook (Venture Blog) and Todd Bishop (the Microsoft Blog) turned in their resignations and are headed to the Business Journal for an “entrepreneurial venture” — which implies the BizJournals.com folks are up to something more than just adding a couple reporters. Sometimes we forget that BizJournals.com is another potentially serious local competitor on the web, especially when you consider their audience. (And the combination of Cook-Bishop is a powerful one: they’re essentially the “TechCrunch” of Seattle, for lack of a better comparison.)
And, of course, this is another example of the talent drain major papers are experiencing right now. Last week, the Seattle Times’ top political reporter/blogger David Postman submitted his resignation to go work in public relations at Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc.
