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Editor
I started off as a nerdy lad expecting to be an electronics engineer, but having tried it for a while discovered that journalism was more fun. Along the way, I worked for Marconi Space And Defence, Sinclair Research and Amstrad doing hardware and software, but ended up 17 years ago on PC Magazine. That had its own CompuServe forums, which evolved into ZDNet UK - and I evolved with them into an online journalist.
It's hard to describe exactly what an editor does - but top of the list is making ZDNet UK sharp, accurate and worth your while. Fortunately, the rest of the team make that part easy. As well as keeping an eye on the shop, I'm regularly on radio and TV talking about technology. If you've got any questions about the site, what we do or what we're going to be up to next - you can tweet, email, Facebook or LinkedIn me. And yes, I'm still that nerdy lad, only these days I'm called @rupertg
Reviews Editor
I'm old enough to remember entering Fortran into Imperial College's CDC 6600 mainframe via an IBM punched-card machine. That was the mid-1970s. A decade later I was producing a weekly news magazine using PageMaker on early Apple Macs, gathering copy from far-flung correspondents using a glacially slow 300-baud modem. I've been in tech publishing since the late 1980s, starting with Reed's Practical Computing, then moving to Ziff-Davis to help launch the UK version of PC Magazine in 1992. ZDNet came looking for a Reviews Editor in 2000, and I've been here ever since.
It's been a long road from punched cards to the Cloud, but it'll still be fun seeing where we go from here. I'm into all manner of hardware and software, mobile or weighty: if you've got interesting tech products to talk about, or review samples to distribute, let me know.
Community and News Editor
How did I get here? It's a question I often ask myself. Like many in tech journalism, I fell into it. I was working in the San Francisco indie film industry when I decided to do a bit of writing on the side:
About a year and a half after starting an internship at a film-making print monthly, I was made the editor but, being in Silicon Valley, it wasn't long before I switched to tech news. I began at ZDNet.com about the same time the Millennium Bug failed to bite, then moved over to edit at CNET News.com, where I specialised in security. Later, I looked after News.com's west coast coverage of business technology, which was only mostly learning acronyms.
After 14 years in California, I found my way home to ZDNet UK. As community and news editor, a lot of the site has to get past me first. As news ed, I work with our reporters to make sure that we cover the news that readers need to know, posting accurate, credible and timely stories. On the community side, I keep an eye on blogs and comments, and highlight the best where they'll complement our editorial coverage. With Twitter and Facebook becoming the place where people get their news, these are interesting times for tech journalism. Everything in news is new again. If you'd like to tell me where you think we should be headed, you can get me on Twitter at @Karen_Friar
Senior Reporter
I had various jobs after leaving university, including working for a company that hires out computers as props for films and television, and turning the entire back catalogue of a publisher into eBooks.
I eventually found that journalism was for me, and after a period of freelancing, landed a job as security reporter for ZDNet UK. I cover the security beat, writing about everything from hacking, cybercrime, and threats, to mitigation. I also focus on emerging technologies, and try to cut through greenwash.
Senior Reporter
I fell into journalism when I realised my musical career wouldn't be paying many bills. Being a bit geeky, it didn't take long to specialise in writing about technology, but my early journalistic career was spent in general news, working behind the scenes for BBC radio and on-air as a newsreader for independent stations. Before I was a hack, I was a toy demonstrator and medical secretary.
My main focus is on communications, of both the fixed and wireless varieties. Internet technologies and regulation also stir my blood, as does the nebulous and fascinating world of mobility. Overall, technology is changing the way we live and interact – for good and for bad - and I'm proud to be able to chronicle parts of that evolution. You can track my work on Twitter; I'm @superglaze
Reporter
I briefly wanted to be an urban planner, but after doing a stint of work experience in a planning office realised that my interest stemmed from information, not from having the ability to deny people roof extensions. My interest in cities and how they deal with information remained, though, and that’s why I got into journalism. Always interested in technology, I spent a year as a technology researcher and reporter for a London-based news agency and freelanced the odd piece before arriving here at ZD towers.
My beat - enterprise infrastructure - lets me focus on datacentres, which I find fascinating, to the mystification of many of my friends (and other hacks). Whether its cloud computing, virtualisation, a new method of network transmission or a scrap of information about what servers which Huge Companies are using, my ears always prick up if I can make a link between the technology I am reporting on and the great, cavernous concrete shells that house the information of our age
Reporter
With a Psychology degree under my belt, a four-year sojourn as a professional online poker followed but as the draw of the gambling life began to wane my attentions turned to more wholesome employment pursuits and I cut my tech-teeth in the world of freelance telecomms journalism, ultimately resulting in starting my own consumer tech website. Seemingly irresistible to CBS Interactive, I was then snapped up as a member of ZDNet UK in June 2010. I'm also colour-blind. And can still very, very occasionally be found lurking in the dark recesses of an online poker tournament.
As a recent recruit to ZDNet UK I cover the latest happenings in the world of business technology, more specifically IT Working which encompasses all the IT tools that end-users need to do their jobs, be it hardware or software. It's a wide remit but somebody has to do it. If you don't know your SAP from your SAS, then I'm your man.
Hot tips (no tittering at the back) can be passed along to me via email or Twitter @BenWoodsZD.
Production Editor
As Production Editor, I sub, proofread and fact-check stories. I write standfirsts and headlines, and source and prepare images. I'm also quite particular about how ZDNet UK spells, capitalises and orders its words.
A History graduate by training, I spent four years teaching English to people of all ages and abilities in Spain, Sweden, Japan and the UK. I followed this with a four-year stint writing TV listings and press material for Channel Five.
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