Editorial Team

The former managing editor of BNET, Nicole helped navigate the business site through its relaunch, expand to two international editions, add more than 20 blogs to its network and increase monthly uniques to 13 million. As part of the editorial team that launched travel magazine Afar, Nicole architected the social media strategy and helped design the psychographic matching system behind the social network, Afar Connect.

Katie Fehrenbacher has been covering cutting-edge technology, startups and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley for more than 7 years. She is the founding Editor of Earth2Tech, which she launched in July 2007. Prior to starting Earth2Tech she was a Staff Writer for GigaOM where she covered wireless and broadband technology. 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.

Barb Darrow has covered high technology and high-tech companies large and small for longer than she’d care to admit. She has written for InfoWorld, CRN, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld and TechTarget.

Kevin Fitchard 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 working at several smaller Texas newspapers. He made the shift to tech writing upon moving to Chicago, where he now lives.

Stacey Higginbotham is happy when immersed in SEC filings, tech specs or poking through a data center. She has spent the last ten 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.

Mathew Ingram is a senior writer with GigaOM. Prior to that he was an award-winning journalist with the Globe and Mail who spent the past 15 years writing about business, technology and new media as a reporter, columnist and blogger. Until January 2010 he was the Globe’s first online Communities Editor, helping the paper and its staff understand and appreciate the benefits of social-media tools such as blogs, comments and Twitter. He also launched the Globe’s ground-breaking Public Policy Wiki, writes for the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University and is one of the founders of Mesh, Canada’s leading Web conference.

Bobbie is a British journalist who has covered technology and society over a decade in London and San Francisco. He was technology correspondent at the Guardian for five years, and has written for outlets including the BBC, Technology Review and Wired UK.

Om Malik has more than 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news. He was part of the founding team of Forbes.com as a Senior Editor. He then went on to become a senior writer at Red Herring during its glory days before joining Business 2.0 in March 2003, covering telecom, innovation and broadband stories. His contributions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and MIT Technology Review. Additionally, Om is the author of “Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist.” He is also the recipient of many industry awards, including Excellence in Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2001 and the Gold Award from American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2001.

Based in San Francisco, Erica reports on Apple for GigaOM. Before joining the team, she spent five years as a reporter for CNET News, covering consumer electronics and PC industries.

Kevin Tofel has 15 years of hands-on I.T. experience at Fortune 100 companies and 5 years of writing, blogging and podcasting behind him. In 2005, he built a team of bloggers for AOL to cover the growing HDTV space. The small startup site eventually became the popular destination of EngadgetHD. Returning to his passion of mobile technology, Kevin joined jkOnTheRun in 2006, where he has blogged extensively about netbooks, notebooks, smartphones, cloud services and Ultra Mobile PCs. Outside of the web world, Kevin’s print writing has appeared in The New York Times, Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, PC Magazine and PC World.

Derrick Harris has been covering the distributed computing space since 2003, when he began reporting on grid computing for GRIDtoday (later renamed On-Demand Enterprise). Derrick joined GigaOM as a contributing writer in 2009 and was one of the original curators for GigaOM Pro, where he continues to serve as a Senior Curator and analyst. Derrick holds a juris doctor degree, cum laude, from the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Ryan Lawler has spent the last 5 years covering business, technology, and telecom-related subjects for a variety of publications based in New York. Before joining GigaOM, he spent two years following online video and digital media trends at Contentinople. Prior to that, Ryan covered telecom infrastructure for Light Reading.

Darrell is a professional blogger, writer and editor. In other words, a man of far too many words. Before that, he worked in the professional consulting field for several years, after graduating from a Master’s degree program in English Literature and Creative Writing.

Ryan has covered personal technology and wireless for the San Francisco Chronicle before joining GigaOM. He is based in New York and covers a number of topics including mobile development, app economies and East Coast start-ups.

Janko Roettgers has been covering all things tech for more than ten 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. In the last few years, Janko has been reporting for radio networks, magazines and newspapers in Germany and beyond. He first began contributing to GigaOM in 2007 and joined the staff in 2009.

Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco, where she covers startups and Silicon Valley for GigaOM. Prior to joining GigaOM, Colleen was a reporter for Mergermarket, an online newswire and subsidiary of the Financial Times Group focused on M&A. Earlier, she was a reporter and contributing editor for Electronic News, the semiconductor industry trade newsletter. Colleen has a B.A. from Columbia University’s Columbia College in New York City.