Returning to the broadband beat with 25+ years across journalism, research and strategy.
I’m the founder of Broadband Build, a reporting project focused on infrastructure and implementation. Previously: top editor at a cable industry journal, policy researcher and longtime writer behind the scenes for dozens of clients. My professional story has three main themes:
Policy + Research – I started my career at a D.C. think tank (AEI). Over those ten years I acquired an appetite for data and digging deep. My work appeared in pubs ranging from the Asian Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post. Throughout my career, I’ve continued to go the extra mile, whether talking with policymakers, engineers, scientists, business leaders or technicians – or trying to make sense of public and private data.
Trade Journalism – For another ten years, I served as a reporter and editor of a trade journal covering cable, telecom and broadband (Communications Technology). Our coverage ran the gamut, from tech ops to advanced engineering. As chief editor for the last five of those years, I produced 63 issues, managing an editorial team and budget. In all, I wrote 400+ feature articles, e-letters, news analyses, quarterlies and sponsored inserts.
Writing and Strategy – Over the past fifteen years, I went mostly incognito, writing white papers, blogs and other collateral for dozens of tech companies, from startups to giants, like Cisco, NTT and VMware. Some byline work continued, for instance, for Videonet, eComEngine (where I served in-house as marketing director for 18 months) and LightReading. I also wrote a history of ARRIS, from its founding through sale to CommScope in 2019.
In summer 2025, I am launching Broadband Build to track the buildout of broadband infrastructure across the U.S. and explore what becomes possible when those networks go live. The project continues my long-standing interest in the intersection of policy, technology and delivery systems.
