The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philly’s legacy newsroom, is welcoming its second New Yorker to the leadership team this year: Matt Boggie will become the first person in the company’s history to hold the title of chief technology and product officer.

Boggie joined the Inquirer in March after time as CTO of theSkimm and Axios and holding the role of executive director of research and development for The New York Times for six years, which he called a “transformative experience” of his career. There, he told Technical.ly, he found the freedom to experiment and gather signals about where news and technology was heading.

For now, the exec is still working remotely from his home in Brooklyn — he won’t be moving to Philadelphia but plans to work in the local office a few days each week — and has been virtually meeting the roughly 50 people his role now oversees, including product, engineering and design. He said he believes this new combined tech and product role at the Inquirer was meant to address that those two aspects of the organization are so closely tied.

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