Editorial Team

Barb has covered technology and high-tech companies for longer than she’d care to admit. She started out as a reporter for InfoWorld, covering Boston-area software companies; then moved over to CRN where she managed the news staff and covered the business both in terms of technology and how technology is sold. She was also news editor for TechWeb and senior news director at TechTarget before joining Gigaom. Barb enjoys seeing how old-school IT companies are (mis)managing their transition into the cloud computing era. She has won several ASBPE awards for her news coverage. Outside of work, she loves gardening, movies and baseball.

Katie has been covering cutting-edge technology, startups and innovators in Silicon Valley for close to a decade. She launched Gigaom’s greentech channel in 2007 and closely tracks energy entrepreneurs and investors. She has been a reporter at Red Herring, an editor at Engadget, and began her career as a reporter in the Silicon Valley bureau of the largest Japanese daily newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun. Her work has appeared online for The Economist, The BBC, Fortune, CNN, Business Week, The New York Times, Salon and Red Herring. In 2008, Katie was recognized as a Forbes Energy Genius. She has been a speaker at events like COP 16, The Commonwealth Club’s Climate One, Greenbiz’s VERGE event, The Churchill Club, The Gridwise Forum, GreenBeat, and South by Southwest, and has appeared on American Public Media, ABC and NBC, among others.

Kevin covers mobile broadband, carriers and wireless infrastructure for Gigaom. He has been writing about wireless networks and technology for 11 years, working first at Telephony Magazine and its online successor Connected Planet. Kevin spent his early career at several small Texas newspapers. He made the shift to tech writing upon moving to Chicago, where he now lives.

Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for Gigaom since 2009. He has written the words “cloud” and “Hadoop” possibly more than any other person on the planet. Derrick lives in Las Vegas and has a law degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Away from the office, Derrick trains in muay thai and is active in animal welfare issues.

Based in New York, Ki Mae covers digital health — from consumer health apps to software for the changing business of health care — as well as new interactive learning and education technology companies. Before joining Gigaom, she produced the science and technology section for ABCNews.com, where she reported on topics ranging from social media and innovation to space and science fiction, and covered technology for Adweek.

Stacey is happy when immersed in SEC filings, tech specs or poking through a data center. She has spent the last 11 years covering technology and finance for publications such as The Deal, the Austin Business Journal, The Bond Buyer and BusinessWeek, and works remotely from Austin, Texas. At Gigaom, Stacey covers broadband, data center infrastructure, policy and regulation, and entrepreneurs/startups, and is particularly excited to discover new ways technology is changing the world.

Lauren covers gaming, emerging technology, and web culture from New York City. Before arriving on the team in June 2013, Lauren freelanced for practically every corner of the web, covering news and features for Mashable, The Next Web, IGN and MediaBistro. She also served time as an Editorial Assistant at Mashable, wrote Star Tracks online for People.com, and started her own magazine in college at Boston University, The Quad. When she’s not toiling away in subreddits, Lauren spends time playing Super Nintendo, baking artisan cupcakes and petting dogs on the sidewalk.

Mathew covers media in all its forms — social and otherwise — as well as web culture and related issues. He is an award-winning journalist who has spent the past 15 years writing about business, technology and new media as a reporter, columnist and blogger. Prior to joining Gigaom, he was a blogger and technology writer for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, and was also the paper’s first online Communities Editor. Mathew is one of the founders of mesh, Canada’s leading web conference.

Tom is a veteran technology journalist, writer, and editor who has never worked in any other medium than the internet. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Gigaom’s editorial mission. Tom has written and edited stories about nearly everything important to us as a tech media company — enterprise computing, the rise of mobile, and consumer internet companies — at one time or another over twelve years at IDG, CNET, and paidContent before joining Gigaom in 2012 and becoming executive editor in 2013. Tom holds a business degree with a concentration in marketing from Boston College, and has appeared as an industry expert on media outlets including CNBC, ABC, CBS, Revision 3, NPR, TWiT, and several others.

David Meyer is a senior writer for Gigaom, covering the Berlin startup scene. He has been a technology journalist since 2006, writing for ZDNet UK and other outlets such as the BBC and the Guardian. He is also a musician, currently enjoying Berlin’s electronic sensibilities.

Rani is a multimedia journalist and an editorial producer at Gigaom. She recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School, where she specialized in data visualization and digital media. Before heading to the big city, Rani worked for three years in the high desert as a copy editor and culture editor at the Santa Fe Reporter. Before that she served as editor in chief of her Midwest alma mater’s newspaper, The Oberlin Review. She’s originally from Long Island. These days she lives in Brooklyn, where she makes graphs, tells stories and talks to strangers. She writes mostly about technology, data visualization and design.

Laura covers book publishing, paywalls and magazines for Gigaom, and has a particular interest in e-book pricing and e-singles. She was previously the editor of Publishing Trends, a website and newsletter for the book publishing industry, and served as a staff writer for paidContent. Laura writes from the Gigaom East office in Manhattan.

Jeff reports on large media companies, as well as patents, copyright, privacy and other legal issues affecting the development of online media. He previously worked as a reporter for Reuters in Paris and New York, and was a practicing lawyer. Jeff is a member of the New York Financial Writers Association and the Overseas Press Club, and serves on the Copyright & Literary Property Committee of the New York City Bar.

Janko has been covering all things tech for more than 10 years. His career as a technology journalist began in Germany, where he published a number of books about subjects like the online music revolution and Internet subcultures. He first began contributing to Gigaom in 2007 and joined the staff in 2009. Janko is also the host of Gigaom’s Cord Cutters series.

After spending 15 years in IT at Fortune 100 companies, Kevin turned a hobby into a career and began covering mobile technology in 2003. He writes daily on the industry and has co-hosted the weekly MobileTechRoundup podcast since 2006. His writing has appeared in print (The New York Times, PC Magazine and PC World) and he has been featured on NBC News in Philadelphia. Kevin’s unique approach is to use the technology as a consumer would, so that he can report back to readers honestly about what they can expect from a device or app and help them get the most out of it. Freescale has named Kevin a “Top 20 Smart Mobile Device Pundit.” When not playing with the latest gadget, Kevin is typically spending time with his family, reading e-books or running in the rural areas near his home office in southeastern Pennsylvania.