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Forbes Technology Editor Joins Sitrick And Company

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Wendy Tanaka, formerly a technology editor and reporter at Forbes, has joined the San Francisco Bay Area office of public relations firm Sitrick And Company.

Ms. Tanaka comes to Sitrick with 20 years of journalism experience. As a technology editor in Forbes’ San Francisco bureau, she led a team of reporters covering Silicon Valley. Prior to Forbes, she was managing editor at tech magazine Red Herring and a business and tech reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Most recently, Ms. Tanaka served for one year as technology news editor of The Network, Cisco Systems’ news site. Ms. Tanaka has a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.

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