Damon Darlin is the technology editor of the New York Times and is based in San Francisco. He joined the Times in 2005, writing the Saturday Your Money column and also covering PCs and other personal electronic devices. He is most interested in the consumer side of technology, particularly in supply, demand and pricing.
Sam Grobart is the personal technology editor at The Times. While he finds server farms and enterprise-level CRM software mildly interesting, he’s most attracted to technologies that ordinary people use. That means staying on top of the latest consumer products and services. It also means gaining a deep understanding of how current products and services work in order to help people make smart decisions and get the most out of the tech they already have. Before joining The Times in 2008, Mr. Grobart was an editor at The Wall Street Journal, Money, Esquire and New York Magazine. He graduated with a degree in History from Kenyon College.
J.D Biersdorfer has been writing the computer Q & A column for the Circuits section of The New York Times since 1998 and also co-hosts the the weekly NYT Tech Talk podcast. She is deeply interested in the collision of technology and popular culture, and has written about everything from 17th-century Indian art to the world of female hackers for The Times. Her work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Budget Travel and the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design. In addition to being the production editor of The New York Times Book Review, she is also the author of iPod: The Missing Manual and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book. She is co-author of the second edition of Google: The Missing Manual and The Internet: The Missing Manual (with David Pogue).
Warren Buckleitner reviews children’s technology — gadgets, apps, toys and software. He’s a former classroom teacher (preschool and elementary) who started reviewing software in 1983, when floppy disks actually flopped. In 1993, he founded Children’s Technology Review, and began contributing to The New York Times Circuits and Personal Tech sections in 2003. He’s a library trustee, teaches at Rutgers and tries to play trumpet in a Dixie band.
Azadeh Ensha previously covered consumer electronics and gadgets as an associate editor at Condé Nast Digital and contributing editor at Lifehacker. She is also a contributor to The Times’ Green Inc., The Lede and Wheels blogs and helped cover the 2008 Beijing Olympics for the paper’s Rings blog. She lives in Brooklyn where her first gadget article for The Times remains proudly on display.
Rik Fairlie has covered consumer electronics and technology products and trends for numerous publications, including The New York Times, CNET, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Computer Shopper, where he was editor in chief. He has also written extensively about the social and consumer side of the Web, as well as the business of technology. Prior to writing about technology, Rik wrote for various travel magazines.
Roy Furchgott’s work has appeared in more than 100 publications, including Business Week, Forbes, Outside, Maxim, and Self. A longtime journalist, he has written on a number of topics, from the role of marketing in politics to motorcycling in New Zealand. He has flown aerobatics in a fighter trainer and lived in a retirement home, toured the sewers of Vienna and crossed Maryland on a bicycle built for two.
Riva Richmond has covered everything from chips to nuts during a decade as a technology reporter, including nearly nine years as a staff writer at Dow Jones Newswires and contributor to The Wall Street Journal. She has written about the world-changing innovations and fortunes of technology giants like Google, Facebook and Intel. Yet Riva’s primary interests lie in tracking the macabre inventions of malware writers, hackers and identity thieves, what industry and government is doing to stop them and how average people can defend themselves. She writes regularly for The Times about electronic security and privacy issues.
Eric A. Taub has written about technology and a wide range of other subjects for The Times and other publications for more than 15 years. He is the author of two books about Hollywood and the Ford Motor Company, and is a contributor to two New York Times books. He lives in Los Angeles.
Stephen Williams wrote about electronic gear and gadgets for more than a dozen years at Newsday, where he covered all aspects of personal technology. He is loath to admit that he has only one modest flat-screen TV in his house (none in the bedroom) but does brag about owning five computers (one in the bedroom). He contributes regularly to the Circuits section of The New York Times.
Sonia Zjawinski has covered gadgets, digital culture, and design since her start at Wired magazine in 2000. Her focus at the Times is on pet tech and how to meld the tech necessities of our modern lives within our homes. She’s written for New York, I.D., ReadyMade, and Money magazines and currently also blogs for Unplggd and Paw Nation. When she’s not at her computer, she’s forcing her cats into costumes scored at Target.
