I’m currently the Director of Editorial Projects and Newsletters at The Conversation, where I am in charge of our email newsletter strategy and operations and spearhead special series and multimedia projects.
Before starting that position in early 2021, I was the Deputy Editor of The Conversation U.S., responsible for coverage of environment & energy, science & tech, and health & medicine. I have been with The Conversation U.S. since its early days and have helped grow it from a small startup to an organization with nearly 30 people. My role has focused on setting editorial direction and processes for the whole group and maintaining high standards for accuracy and readability.
During the early months of the pandemic, I led a team of editors covering the latest science and public health issues around COVID-19. I top edited other editors’ stories and edited my own on a range of subjects in science, environment and health. Some examples from 2019 and 2020: the effect of climate change is having on migration from Central American, South Korea’s response to the pandemic, the political reasons behind faster deforestation in Brazil’s rainforest, and the ethics of emotion-reading artificial intelligence. I launched the Environment & Energy section in 2015.
Before joining The Conversation, I worked as a reporter and news manager at print and digital publications. I was the national correspondent for Xconomy and reported on energy and technology for MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, the Boston Globe, the Guardian and others. I’m a multimedia journalist, comfortable shooting photos and editing videos.
As a freelance writer, I focused on stories at the intersection of science and business. At Xconomy, my focus was startups in San Francisco and Boston working in the areas of natural resources–energy, food, water–and emerging technologies, including robotics and other engineering-driven fields. At MIT Technology, I authored a blog on energy technology called “Does it Scale.”
I spent ten years as a senior editor at online technology news site CNET News, where I was the lead reporter and manager of the Green Tech blog. I’m proud to say Green Tech was a finalist for the best news or political blog in Editors & Publishers Eppy award in 2010. I started to cover energy and environment in 2005 at CNET after reporting on enterprise software, open source, and Web development. I did extensive photography, a weekly “Green Minute” radio spot, and occasional video reports.
Before joining CNET in 2002, I worked at tech publisher IDG in various reporting and editing roles. I began writing about information technology as the first Paris correspondent for the IDG News Service in the early 1990s. During the dotcom boom and bust, I was executive editor at InfoWorld, a weekly publication and Web site based in Silicon Valley covering enterprise technology.
I started my journalism career in Paris where, over five years, I worked for Business Week, ABC News, and local publications.
I live in the Boston area with my wife and child. For eight years, I coached town soccer and other youth sports and I play basketball regularly myself. For three years, I was on the board of the Lexington Montessori School where I was a founding member of the sustainability committee.
I’m into birding and bird photography. Here’s my flickr page.