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Eric Lundquist
Eric Lundquist
Vice President / Editorial Director

Eric Lundquist is the Editorial Director, which includes print, online, international and conference editorial activities. He writes the weekly Upfront print column, maintains a blog and podcast on eweek.com and is a frequent speaker at industry events. Prior to being named the Editorial Director he was Editor-In-Chief of eWEEK. Lundquist came to technology reporting after working as a daily newspaper reporter and correspondent for United Press International. Lundquist has appeared regularly as a technology commentator on CNN and CBS Marketwatch.He has won numerous journalism awards including Neal Awards, Computer Press Association awards and New England Press Association awards. He was named to the Marketing Computers “Most Influential Journalist” list.

He holds a B.A. in history from the University of Massachusetts, a Master of Science in journalism from Boston University and a graduate degree in management with an emphasis on technology from the extension school at Harvard University.

Jim Rapoza
Jim Rapoza
eWEEK Chief Technology Analyst

Rapoza joined eWEEK in 1993, and since then has evaluated products and technologies in almost every technology category. Jim is responsible for scouting out new and emerging technologies, covering those technologies in a new blog, on our website and in print. He has covered both the server and client side of Internet and intranet applications, from Web servers to browsers to e-commerce platforms to security. Rapoza has coordinated several evaluations at enterprise organizations, including Gannett and The Prudential, to measure the performance of products and services under real-world conditions and against real-world criteria. Rapoza has been interviewed for NPR, ABC Radio, NECN and other local media outlets.

Scot Petersen
Scot Petersen
Director of Editorial Operations, Enterprise Group

As Director of Editorial Operations, Petersen is in charge of all our cross publication efforts across both online and print, including all podcast and video efforts. Petersen joined PC Week (Ziff Davis Media) in 1995 after stops at the Beverly Times, Boston Herald and Boston Business Journal. His first job at PC Week was Department Editor, managing the Servers & Databases section. Later he helped launch the publication's first Internet, Intranet Builder and Internet Economy sections. He moved up to Deputy News Editor in 1999, and News Editor in 2000. Petersen wrote the magazine's "E-volution" column (1998-2002) and is current "News Edge" columnist, from March 2004.

He is a member of the eWEEK Editorial Board, which won the 1999 Jesse H. Neal Award of the American Business Press for Best Staff-Written Editorials. Petersen holds an MA in English from Northeastern University and will receive an MBA from Northeastern in the Spring of 2005.

 
Debra Donston
Debra Donston
eWEEK Editor

As Editor, Donston is responsible for the content and quality of the weekly publication as well as eWEEK's demographic editions, and will act as liaison with the eWEEK.com group. With eWEEK since 1990, Donston previously provided editorial direction to eWEEK Labs analysts and editors, aligning reviews, tech analyses and features with eWEEK readers' most pressing concerns. Donston developed and managed the Labs' weekly feature packages, as well as developed the Labs' eVALUATION program, a solutions-oriented platform for evaluating products in real-world environments. Donston has worked very closely with and managed eWEEK's Corporate Partners, an Corporate Partners comprising IT professionals from private, public, government and academic organizations that helps ally eWEEK's content with the most pressing needs of IT.

Donston also played a key role in eWEEK's eSeminar program, establishing the Web-based seminars' editorial framework and developing seminar topics, speakers and content. Donston was an enthusiastic contributor to Ziff Davis Media's former Zcast.tv outlet, co-producing and hosting the "TestRun" and "Ask ZLabs" shows. Donston was formerly Copy Chief at the Boston Business Journal and a small-business news correspondent for the Fitchburg/Leominster Sentinel & Enterprise, a Central Massachusetts daily newspaper.

 
Jason Brooks
eWEEK Labs Executive Editor

As eWEEK Labs Executive Editor, Brooks provides editorial direction to eWEEK Labs analysts and editors, aligning reviews, tech analyses and  features with eWEEK readers' most pressing concerns, both in print and online. Brooks joined eWEEK in 1999, and has covered wireless networking, office productivity software, mobile devices, and desktop and notebooks. Jason currently leads eWEEK Labs coverage of client and server operating systems, server virtualization and open source software and licensing.

Michael Hickins
eWEEK News Executive Editor

In his role as is the executive news editor of eWEEK, Michael coordinates enterprise technology news coverage, Web, multi-media and print features. Before joining eWEEK, Michael covered enterprise software companies, including Microsoft, SAP and Oracle, and trends like Web 2.0 in the enterprise, SaaS and SOA at internetnews.com. He also pioneered coverage of election systems and health care IT for Jupitermedia. Earlier stops include a stint as editor in chief at Multex Investor, a personal finance and investing site, before the company was bought by Reuters, and helped created an award-winning compliance tool for Thompson. Before this, he edited retail technology coverage for Fairchild Publications, and was the senior business editor of WWD.com.

 
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