Editorial Team

Om Malik — Founder and Senior Writer

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.

Celeste LeCompte — Special Projects Editor

Celeste LeCompte has more than 5 years experience as researcher, journalist and editor. Before joining GigaOM Pro, she was the editor of Sustainable Industries magazine, where she helped launch a portfolio of research-driven special publications, and an associate editor at the now-defunct utility news and analysis site NWCurrent.com. She continues to speak regularly about green business, technology and media. LeCompte is a graduate of Harvard College.

Michael Wolf — VP, Research

Michael Wolf has spent more than 10 years as an industry analyst, starting at In-Stat and launching the company’s consumer networking and digital media research services, and more recently was the digital home practice director for ABI. He has been a columnist for Network World and has written a book on home networking for consumers. At GigaOM Pro, he oversees overall research efforts and serves as curator for the Connected Consumer. Wolf has a Master’s in International Management from Thunderbird.

Stacey Higginbotham — Senior Writer

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.

Liz Gannes — Senior Writer

Liz Gannes has been a Silicon Valley-based business technology reporter since 2004. She currently covers the web for GigaOM. In 2006, she founded NewTeeVee, a GigaOM Network site that is now the preeminent source for news and analysis about the intersection of entertainment and technology. She graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in linguistics and started her career as a reporter at Red Herring.

Mathew Ingram — Senior Writer

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.

Kevin Tofel — Editor, jkOnTheRun and Staff Writer

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.

Katie Fehrenbacher — Editor, Earth2Tech and Staff Writer

Katie Fehrenbacher has been covering cutting-edge technology, startups and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley for over 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.

Josie Garthwaite — Staff Writer

Josie has covered green business and consumer trends for the last four years, as a writer and editor for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Sierra Magazine, where her content was also syndicated to the Huffington Post. She has an MA from the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University, where she studied business reporting and analyzed media coverage of electric cars and the cleantech boom.

James Kendrick — Editor, jkOnTheRun and Staff Writer

James Kendrick has written and done video reviews and how-to’s for numerous publications, including Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, Information Week and Laptop Magazine. He is also member of the prestigious Mobius group “” an invitation extended to true experts in the world of mobile technology. An avid Tablet PC user, James was recognized in 2005 with the Microsoft MVP award in Tablet PCs.

Josh Pigford — Editor, TheAppleBlog

Josh Pigford is a writer and interactive designer based out of Denver, Colorado. In addition to immersing himself in all things Apple, he also designs and develops interactive products for companies both large and small around the globe.

Simon Mackie — Editor, WebWorkerDaily and Staff Writer

Simon has been working in technical publishing for nearly 10 years, starting out his career at Wrox Press before moving on to SitePoint, Vitamin, and now, WebWorkerDaily. He lives in Bristol in the South West of England and has a passion for the Web “done right”.

Ryan Lawler — Staff Writer

Ryan Lawler has spent the last 5 years covering business, technology, and telecom-related subjects for a variety of publications based in New York. He’s the newest staff writer for GigaOm and NewTeeVee, but spent the previous two years following online video and digital media trends at Contentinople. Prior to that, Ryan covered telecom infrastructure for Light Reading.

Janko Roettgers — Editor, NewTeeVee and Staff Writer

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 started to contribute to NewTeeVee in early 2007 and eventually became its co-editor at the end of 2009.

Liz Shannon Miller — Editor, NewTeeVee and Staff Writer

As a co-editor of NewTeeVee, Liz Shannon Miller reviews the best and worst in web content, and has been called the Pauline Kael of online video by at least one person. She has been covering the online video space since 2006, is a member and co-founder of the International Academy for Web Television, and once curated the front page of YouTube for a day. She is also a freelancer for other publications, including Variety, The Wrap, AOL’s Lemondrop, Comcast’s FEARnet and Regent Media’s Popnography, and a playwright and filmmaker in her very limited free time. Based in Los Angeles, she holds a degree in screenwriting and interactive multimedia from USC, and enjoys space battles, old school funk and videos of cats.