Employment history (most recent first)
10/10-7/15 Online community manager, EnterpriseCIOForum.com (IDG)
6/1/09 – May 1, 2010 Blogger for Thinking Tech at SmartPlanet.com, a CBS Interactive web site sponsored by IBM
11/06-1/09 – Editor-in-Chief, Design News (Reed Elsevier) — DN was a 63-year-old engineering magazine with a robust web site. We grew web traffic grew 35% in 2007 and substantially improvement content quality, volume and SEO. We also made wide use of video, photos and podcasts. An innovation is our use of landing pages on the web for exhaustive and continuing coverage of topics like the development of the Boeing’s 787, Minneapolis bridge collapse and 2008 LA commuter trash crash. We won several editorial awards.
10/05-11/06 – Editor-in-Chief, Electronic Business (Reed Elsevier) — We redesigned the magazine magazine and web site. Dramatic improvements were made to the content.
9/04-10/05 – Editor-in-Chief, EDN magazine (Reed Elsevier) — I was the first journalist to lead EDN, a technical electrical engineering 24x magazine. Before me, the top editor was always an engineer. We redesigned both the web site and magazine and livened up the content. At the same time, we preserved its deep technical orientation.
1/02-9/04 – Executive Editor, Bio-IT World (IDG) — This magazine covered information information technology for the biopharma industry.
Editor-in-Chief, Health-IT World (IDG) — This online magazine covered information technology in healthcare and focused heavily on electronic medical records.
1/91-1/00 – Executive News Editor & Editor, PC Week (Ziff Davis) — My 16 years at PC Week and publisher Ziff Davis (two stints) were the most significant chunks of my career. PC Week was a juggernaut for about 20 years with an editorial staff that peaked at 120 reporters, journalists, graphics artists and researchers. Today, it is no longer in print, but endures online as Eweek.com. My role was to run news and then the entire editorial operation.
2000-02 Editor-in-Chief, Zcast.tv (Ziff Davis) — A pioneering technology news service on the Internet.
1/99-4/01 WSJ.com columnist, Dodge’s E-conomy — As the name suggests, the weekly column examined the impact of the Internet on businesses and industries. I also did several features on small business for the print edition.
11/95-12/98, bi-weekly business columnist, Boston Globe. The column was called TechEdge and offered technology advice.
4/95-11/95, technology columnist, Atlanta Journal Constitution
1990-2018, freelance feature writer, Boston Globe
8/88-1/91 Executive Editor, Technology, Computer Reseller News newsweekly
7/83-4/88 News Editor, PC Week — As founding news editor, I defined and executed the news strategy that set the bar for IT journalism for 20 years and made PC Week a must read in corporate IT departments.
3/81-7/83 News Editor, Software News
1/80-3/81 Boston correspondent, MIS Week
12/77-1/80 police/fire/court reporter, Haverhill Gazette
6/77-12/77 correspondent, Lowell Sun
9/76-6/77 regular stringer, Newburyport Daily News
Education
Master of Science in journalism, Boston University, May, 1977
Bachelor of arts, economics, Franklin Pierce College, 1972
Interests
Following the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics; cycling, tennis and golf; skiing, reading, train watching as a lifelong ferroequinologist, conservation and renewable energy.
Personal Data
Birthplace: Newburyport, Mass.
Married with two children
John M. Dodge
1 Olde Parish Way
West Newbury, MA 01985
Contact info: 978-360-3128, jdodge349@gmail.com, @thedodgeretort (Twitter)
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