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  • SWMS Tech Edit Spotlight on Wall Street Journal
    2007-05-03 03:12

     

     

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  • Jason Pontin, Technology Review
    2007-05-01 03:12
    Jason Pontin, EIC and Publisher
    Technology Review
     
    Freelance columnist
    The New York Times Circuits section

    May 2007

     

    The new Technology Review

    Jason enjoys the challenge of holding both the editor and publisher titles at the oldest technology magazine in the world (1899). His responsibilities include print circulation, web sites, advertising, events, list rental, and webinars, staffing, you name it. "They asked me to make them proud… meet budgets… and to sketch out what a modern publishing company might look like," so he "turned it upside down." He halved the frequency of the print publication, and allowed it to "focus on what print does best: images and longer format investigative stories." They also launched a daily news website publishing three to five stories a day, including video, blogs, vlogs, mobile and recently launched text to speech (podcast) that allows all TR stories to be heard on mobile devices and PCs.

  • David Lidsky, Fast Company
    2007-04-13 03:12
    David Lidsky, senior editor
    Fast Company
    April 2007

     

    FC's New Editor

    Bob Safian came from Time Inc., with time at Money, Time and Fortune. David: "He's a really sharp magazine maker in a way that the magazine has probably never had at Fast Company.

     

  • Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld
    2007-04-13 03:12
    Jaikumar Vijayan, senior editor
    Computerworld
    April 2007
     

    The Beat

    Information security and data privacy: Breaches, securing enterprise data, regulations and legislation. While security used to be "virus and worms," the focus today has changed to an information risk and operational risk standpoint, says Jai.

     

  • Peter Rojas, Engadget
    2007-03-23 03:12
    Peter Rojas, EIC,
    March 2007

     

    Three crazy years

    A long-time blogger, Peter recalls starting Engadget when the idea that "any web site could be profitable, was a crazy idea in the wake of the dot-com bust." The rest is history and Engadget is now a lean-and-mean operation at the top of the blog heap. "It's a pretty decent business," he says. "It's not MySpace or YouTube… we do all right, cover expenses and can pay writers more and more." Staffers include, Peter, Ryan Block and four other full-timers, supported by a team of freelance contributors.

  • Rafe Needleman, CNET
    2007-03-23 03:12
    Rafe Needleman
    Editor at large, CNET.com
    March 2007

     

    Today it's all about the blog.

     

    Webware, Crave, & Alpha

    Webware.com is focused on web apps (or as the enterprise calls it, software-as-a-service) for SMB & consumers and is Job #1 for Rafe these days. Believing that Web 2.0 and SaaS were too much jargon for the average user, the term "Webware" was born and poses the question: "What can I do with this net connection I have?" Rafe and a researcher make up the full-time staff with the rest coming in as contributions from across CNET's editorial teams.

  • David Strom, Freelancer
    2007-03-13 03:12
    David Strom - freelancer, former EIC, and media observer
    March 2007

    Freelancer:

  • Eric Savitz, Barron's
    2007-03-13 03:12
    Eric Savitz, West Coast Editor
    Barron’s

    Blog:  Tech Trader Daily -  http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/ 

    Here’s yet another example of a traditional media journalist evolving past the usual rules and regulations of news reporting to keep up with the new media world order. Eric’s shoot-from-the-hip blogging style (no editor required) is on one hand surprising and brave, considering Barron’s mission to create market-moving content. On the other hand, Barron’s has little choice, since financial-blogger competitors have sprung up at AOL and several other prominent places – and then there are the former upstarts such as TheStreet.com and Marketwatch.

  • Gabe Rivera, Techmeme
    2007-03-13 03:12
    Gabe Rivera, editor
    March 2007
     
    “It’s great if you can actually write an interesting blog.” HitWise and Compete are both companies that publish posts that indirectly promote their product, but provide news and spark all kinds of discussions that come up on Techmeme.” If you can make news that’s great, but most companies can’t do that. Another good strategy is to “find bloggers that don’t get as much attention, but are smart confident guys.” Though they are less trafficked, “a lot are still read by the alpha-bloggers.” Examples: CenterNetworks or StartupSquad instead of TechCrunch. “You might want to engage them instead of the ones that are really busy."
     
  • Bobby White, WSJ
    2007-02-19 03:12
    Bobby White, reporter
    The Wall Street Journal
    February 2007

    Lots to learn

    Bobby is one of the new kids on the WSJ block and enjoys learning about the tech he covers. Among the work he's most proud of are the pieces that "required tremendous reporting to pull together -- complicated issues." He's ready to and does take time to sit down and understand the network, from routers to switches, on site at companies "while they white-boarded." PR has been very useful in these endeavors, providing "a number of background conversations" and access to "patient" company spokespeople while he "poked and prodded on different areas I didn't quite understand."