The Verge is pioneering and unique in its field, having grown to become among the largest and most authoritative digital media properties by covering how our future – whether in culture, science, policy, or art – is being shaped by technology. We’ve always said that The Verge is fundamentally about The Future – and we now have a new leader to take us there. 

A leader at The Verge since its inception, Nilay spent the past six months working with Ezra, Melissa, and Matt on Vox.com, where he’s provided invaluable counsel and penned a series of his trademark screeds. (As Ezra put it in an email to the Vox.com team back in March, “I couldn’t feel luckier to be at a company where one of the resources you get to draw on is Nilay &#*# Patel!”) Now, Nilay switches his full attention back to The Verge. Effective immediately, he’ll dig in with The Verge’s amazing editorial team, Vox Product, Vox Studio and the rest of the company to lead The Verge into a second golden age. Nilay will report to Vox Media’s Editorial Director, Lockhart Steele, who will be a partner, working with The Verge team to set the course and execute.

Dieter Bohn, currently a member of The Verge’s senior leadership team, will be The Verge’s new Executive Editor. Dieter served as editor-in-chief of the Smartphone Experts network of sites (Android Central, TiPb, and more) from 2006 through 2011, when he joined The Verge. In this new position as Executive Editor, he’ll play a key role guiding and empowering The Verge’s team of writers and editors, working closely with Nilay and the Verge senior leadership to set the overall direction for the site – and the means for getting there.

What Josh Topolsky and The Verge team built over the past two-plus years is nothing short of incredible. The site receives over 20 million unique visitors a month, and produces the best journalism and product experience in the business. We owe deep gratitude to Josh for getting us where we are today, and we wish him the very best in his new role with Bloomberg.

Across our company, I’m blown away by what I see right now. Traffic and growth rates are at all-time highs across Vox Media, even during this traditionally slow season. Vox Advertising and Vox Creative are leading the way in branded content development. The Curbed acquisition is proceeding with strength, with Eater slated to launch soon on Chorus with a gorgeous redesign. And Vox.com is the fastest-growing media launch of 2014, having rocketed already to 7.5 8.6 million unique visitors a month as of this writing. Anyone who spent time with the site last week as the Malaysia Air crash and Gaza violence unfolded understand why.

As with the future itself, for The Verge and Vox Media, the best is yet to come.

Best,

Jim