Tom Steinert-Threlkeld became editorial director at Inter@ctive Week in Sept. 1999. He served as editor-in-chief from May, 1995 to September, 1999. During that time, the magazine earned four Computer Press Association awards, including best overall weekly trade publication, best nontechnical trade publication and rookie publication of the year.

Tom's centerpiece column touches on the wide range of technical, social and business issues that interactive communications, from the Internet to online services to frame relay networks, have spawned.

Prior to joining Inter@ctive Week, Tom had been technology writer and columnist for the Dallas Morning News since 1988, covering the telecommunications, computer and microchip industries. He received the John Hancock Award for Excellence in business journalism and also won Texas' two top writing honors for business writing.

Tom has been involved in interactive services for many years. He founded one of the first commercial online services, called StarText, for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 1981.

He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Rob Fixmer
Editor-In-Chief
rob_fixmer@ziffdavis.com
(212) 503-4842

John McCormick
Editor
jmccormi@ziffdavis.com
(516) 229-3755

John is Editor of Inter@ctive Week.

Before joining Inter@ctive Week, John was the editorial director at SIGS Publications, the New York-based publisher of Web Apps Magazine, Java Report and other software-related publications. Prior to that, he was the editor of both the print and online editions of CMP Media Inc.'s InformationWeek magazine.

Jeri Clausing
Executive Editor
jeri2@home.com
(410) 747-8077

Emily-Sue Sloane
Executive Managing Editor
esloane@ziffdavis.com

Emily-Sue is executive managing editor of Inter@ctive Week, responsible for ensuring that the publication makes deadline without depriving the production staff of having a life or sacrificing editorial and artistic excellence.

Emily-Sue has been in publishing for many years. She has worked as executive editor at NetGuide magazine, a CMP publication. She has also held a variety of writing and editorial management positions at Network Computing magazine, Computer Systems News and Electronic Buyers' News.

Joe McGarvey
Executive Editor, Communications
jmcgarve@ziffdavis.com
(516) 229-3764

Joe McGarvey, who returned to Inter@ctive Week following an unsuccessful six-month search for the meaning of life, covers issues and technology connected with the construction of next-generation networks designed to carry voice, video and data traffic.

Prior to joining the start-up staff of Inter@ctive Week in 1994, Joe was an associate editor at Windows Sources Magazine. He has written stories that appeared in several magazines and newspapers. He is most proud, however, of the book Nothing Happened at School Today, which he co-authored with his five-year-old daughter, Hannah, for Mrs. Theiss' preschool class.

Randy Barrett
East Coast News Editor
barretone@patriot.net
(202) 785-5144

Randy Barrett is Inter@ctive Week's East Coast News Editor and Washington Bureau Chief.

He was formerly editor of the publications Enterprise Reengineering and Technology Transfer Business. Prior to that, he was a staff writer for Washington Technology, a regional newspaper covering the information technology industry in the Mid-Atlantic. Randy also did a stint as a market researcher and writes songs in his spare time.

Connie Guglielmo
West Coast News Editor / Silicon Valley Bureau Chief
acmewriter@aol.com
(650) 691-0430

Connie writes for the Business-to-Consumer section of Inter@ctive Week, covering online retail trends and online consumer shopping issues. She also writes about key companies in and around Silicon Valley.

Prior to joining Inter@ctive Week in January 1997, Connie spent four years as a reporter and editor at MacWEEK in the late 80s and early 90s, rising to executive editor of news. She also worked as a freelance writer and editor for such publications as Fortune, Upside and Wired; and such projects as Against All Odds Productions' 24 Hours in Cyberspace; and the Macintosh Bible.

She prefers to be contacted via e-mail and by phone.

Dennis Mendyk
Telecommunications Editor
dennis_mendyk@ziffdavis.com
(201) 587-2154

John Mulqueen
Business Editor
john_mulqueen@ziffdavis.com
(212) 503-4852

John Mulqueen joined Inter@active Week as business editor in June 2000. He had been editor of Trading Technology Week, a newsletter that focused on the use of technology by broker-dealers. He has been business and financial editor of CommunicationsWeek, Data Communications and InternetWeek, and has freelanced for a number of publications including Barron's, Equities, Individual Investor, Business Communicatons Review, Phone+ and Network World.

John graduated from Fordham College and has an MBA from Pace University. He enjoys studing foreign languages, most recently Irish and German.

Louis Trager
Economics Editor
ltrager@ziffdavis.com
(415) 547-8356

Louis covers retailing and non-financial consumer services online, and selected economic issues. He has reported since 1980 for the Columbia Missourian, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel and, for 12 years, the San Francisco Examiner, where most recently he covered telecommunications. His work has won awards from the Florida Publishers Association, Hearst Newspapers and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. A California native, he has a splendid wife, Debra Sarver; a charming mongrel, Knuckles; and a law degree from Yale.

Doug Brown
Washington Bureau Chief
carizozo@mindspring.com
(202) 408-6888

Doug Brown is Inter@ctive Week's Washington Bureau Chief.

He worked as a daily newspaper reporter for 6 years at The Albuquerque Tribune and the Sun-Sentinel in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he covered crime, courts, local government, higher education, health and film. Before joining Inter@ctive Week, he covered the Internet and government information technology policy for Federal Computer Week. Doug is obsessed with food.

Audrey Newman
Managing Editor, Special Projects
anewman@ziffdavis.com
(516) 229-3765

As Managing Editor, Special Projects, Audrey shepherds all the supplemental and special report pages. She was most recently Managing Editor of Windows Magazine. Her previous gigs have included editorial and production positions at Georgia State University, the Gwinnett Daily News (both in Atlanta), Adweek Magazine, Inside Sports Magazine and Professional Sports Publications.

Catherine Silverman
Assistant Managing Editor
csilver@ziffdavis.com
(516) 229-3768

Cathy has been in the publishing industry for more than 20 years. She joined Inter@ctive Week from CMP Media, where most recently she was copy chief at Windows magazine. She also was a section editor at Electronic Buyers' News and Electronic Engineering Times, both CMP publications. In addition, Cathy was the editor of several monthly newsletters in the security field. As a freelancer, she has written articles on a variety of topics.

Michael Gray
News Graphics Editor
mgray@ziffdavis.com

Michael is the news graphics editor for Inter@ctive Week.

His past publishing life has taken him from writing headlines on the news desk of The New York Post ("Headless Body In Topless Bar") to creative director of CapCities/ABC Publishing. Michael enjoys golf and writing nonfiction.

Larry Dignan
Editor-In-Chief, Inter@ctive Investor
larry_dignan@zdnet.com
(212) 503-4804

Nancy Strein
Manager, Online Operations
nstrein@zdnet.com

Nancy is the Manager of Online Operations for Inter@ctive Week Online. She is responsible for all daily updates to the site and oversees and implements all new design and development for the Web site.

Matt Carolan
Online News Editor
mcarolan@ziffdavis.com

Matthew Carolan is the Online News Editor for Inter@ctive Week.

He is the former executive editor of National Review. He is also a weekly columnist for Newsday, where he writes about politics, business, and culture.

Charles Babcock
Technology
cbabcock@ziffdavis.com
(415) 547-8358

Charlie was previously technical editor for Web development tools and database management at MainSpring Communications Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., Internet company. He was technical editor of Computerworld from 1993 to 1997, based in its Burlingame, Calif., office. He is the former New York correspondent and senior editor for software at Computerworld and served as editor-in-chief of Digital News from 1988 to 1992, when it was sold and combined with competitor Digital Review.

Charlie has 13 years experience writing about technology and was a regular speaker and columnist for Computerworld. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, with a bachelor's degree in journalism/American studies. He was previously the medicine/technology reporter and business editor for the Evening Press in Binghamton, N.Y. He is based in San Francisco.

Rebecca Cantwell
Communications News
rebecca_cantwell@ziffdavis.com
(303) 256-6480

 Rebecca writes about news and trends in the communications and cable industries as they relate to the Internet. Prior to joining Inter@ctive Week, she covered communications business news at the Denver Rocky Mountain News, and also did a variety of other writing and editing jobs at the News and at smaller daily newspapers. She is based in Colorado.

Mindy Charski
Cybermedia
mindy_charski@ziffdavis.com
(404) 814-8947

Mindy writes for the Business-to-Consumer section of Inter@ctive Week, covering Internet content. Every month she writes a page dedicated to online advertising and marketing. Prior to joining Inter@ctive Week in May 2000, Mindy spent two years covering personal finance at U.S. News & World Report and enjoyed a short stint at Bloomberg in Washington, D.C. She prefers to be contacted via e-mail.

Mike Cleary
Consumer Business
mike_cleary@ziffdavis.com
(703) 455-3652

Edward Cone
Business Commerce
efcone@mindspring.com
(336) 378-2516

 Ed is a breaking news and feature writer focusing on business-to-business electronic commerce. He is based in North Carolina.

Mel Duvall
Business Commerce
mduvall@home.com
(403) 254-4189

Mel is a breaking news reporter on the Intranet/Extranet and digital commerce fronts.

He was a senior business writer for The Financial Post, a daily newspaper covering the business scene in Canada, prior to joining Inter@ctive Week. He also was a business and technology reporter with the Calgary Herald for eight years, where he edited the newspaper's weekly Computers section.

Mel has a journalism degree from Ryerson University in Toronto, and, true to Canadian stereotypes, he's a hockey nut.

Laura Lorek
Business Commerce
llorek@msn.com
(512) 858-5330

 Laura A. Lorek joined Inter@ctive Week in May of 2000. She primarily covers business to business technology ventures although she is interested in all kinds of technology.

Before joining Inter@ctive Week, Laura was a weekly technology columnist and specialty writer with the Sun-Sentinel, a 300,000 circulation Tribune Co. daily newspaper based in Fort Lauderdale. She worked there for eight years closely following the development of the commercial Internet and its impact on the business community. Before that, she worked at three other daily newspapers based in Texas.

Laura graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in journalism with a minor in economics. She is based just outside of Austin, Texas. For more information, visit her personal Web site at www.Zubblewump.com.

Meg McGinity
Wireless
meg_mcginity@ziffdavis.com
(516) 594-6098

Brian Ploskina
Services
brian_ploskina@ziffdavis.com
(215) 708-1582

Brian's first journalism experience was writing an expose' on his university's cover-up of the levels of radon found in it's dining halls. Since that event, Brian has changed two things: he switched his major to journalism and began buying food at the supermarket.

After attaining a journalism degree from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Brian joined ENT, a bi-monthly pub covering the enterprise use of the Windows NT/2000 platform. After the deluge that is covering the software industry, he found himself knee deep in infrastructure with Inter@ctive Week and has been loving it ever since.

Major beats include: DSL, integrated access devices, voice over IP, online gaming and online music.

Max Smetannikov
ISP Watch
max_smetannikov@ziffdavis.com
(301) 610-6070

Max writes about the ISP industry for Interactive Week.

Prior to joining the magazine, Max was a senior editor of ISP Business News, a newsletter dedicated to describe the inner workings of ISPs for senior executives. Before Max was consumed by the vortex of telecom industry, he wrote about multilateral lending and oil pipelines for Bloomberg News. A man of many talents, Max worked for various news outlets in this country and overseas, which include WSMV TV in Nashville, Tenn. and newspaper Rodniki, the voice of collective farmers of the Moscow region. Max holds a Master of Arts degree in Journalism from The American University.

Todd Spangler
Access
todd_spangler@ziffdavis.com
(212) 503-4812

Todd covers access technologies for Inter@ctive Week.

Previously, he was technology editor of Internet World, where he oversaw ISP and networking coverage. He also has worked at PC Magazine, where he was the associate editor for networking features, and various non-technology magazines including Business Marketing, Hawaii Business, and Inside Sports.

Nicole M. White
Group Design Director
nwhite@ziffdavis.com

Nicole has been with Inter@ctive Enterprises since the launch of Inter@ctive Week in 1994. Before joining us, Nicole spent seven years at CMP Publications, where she was the original art director at Network Computing magazine.

Prior to that, Nicole was an artist on the staff of VARBusiness and Computer Systems News, designing all special issues from these two publications as well as start-ups and redesigns within the company.

Lisa M. Kempf
Art Director
lkempf@ziffdavis.com

Lisa is the art director for Inter@ctive Week.

Prior to joining Inter@ctive Week, she worked as a senior designer in promotions for CMP Publications, and also was responsible for the editorial design of Longevity and Omni magazines and did free-lance work for Scholastic Publications.

Lisa Russac McDonough
Managing Art Director
lmcdonou@ziffdavis.com

Tricia McGoey
Assistant Art Director
tricia_mcgoey@ziffdavis.com

Lorri Elton
Assistant Art Director
lorri_elton@ziffdavis.com

Joann DeFilippo
Senior Designer
joann_defilippo@ziffdavis.com

Bob Villatore
Junior Designer
bob_villatore@ziffdavis.com

Mark S. Baker
Copy Chief
mark_baker@ziffdavis.com

Cindy Blaut
Copy Editor
cblaut@ziffdavis.com

Todd Conard
Copy Editor
todd_conard@ziffdavis.com

Brendan Cook
Copy Editor
bcook@ziffdavis.com

Rose Rubin Rivera
Copy Editor
rose_rivera@ziffdavis.com

Max Magee
Editorial Assistant
mmagee@ziffdavis.com