Despite The Awl’s five years of existence on the Web, it seems that the news and culture website has never officially left beta mode. Today, the site’s co-founders Choire Sicha and Alex Balk (its third co-founder, David Cho, left to become publisher of Grantland in 2011) announced that next month The Awl will finally get a formal launch, as well as a pair of new editors.
Sicha and Balk tapped Matt Buchanan, the deputy editor of The New Yorker’s science and tech vertical, and John Herrman, editor of BuzzFeed's tech vertical, as the site’s new co-editors.
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