‘Press: Here’ is a Sunday morning news roundtable discussion show featuring the top names in Silicon Valley's technology industry and world class technology reporters from The New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, Businessweek, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, NPR, the BBC and Fortune. 

 

 Contact the Press: Here team at feedback@pressheretv.com

 

 

 

'Press: Here' Host Scott McGrew

Scott McGrew has 20 years experience as a television reporter, 10 of them as a technology reporter.  His work has been seen on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and the BBC.  He has been nominated for 10 Emmy Awards, but he's quick to point out he's never won any.
 

 

He has been dabbling in computers since his first Apple II. 
 

 

Scott was one of the few reporters in the world allowed to fly Combat Air Patrol as part of Operation Enduring Freedom following 9/11, when he flew backseat in an F-16 tailing civilian airliners.

 

He was also one of a corps of four reporters to witness the last firing squad execution in the United States.  He wrote a piece about it for the London Daily Mail.

 
 

Scott reports on technology on the Bay Area's NBC, as well as produces and reports for the syndicated high technology show TechNow.  He also joins sports radio hosts Murph, Mac and Gary Radnich on sports radio KNBR 680am on weekday mornings to talk business and technology.

 Scott lives with his wife and two boys in Silicon Valley.  His personal website is scottmcgrew.net





 
   

Sarah Lacy

 

Sarah Lacy is an award winning journalist and author of the book, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0
 

 Lacy has been a reporter in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade, covering everything from the tiniest startups to the largest public companies. She writes a biweekly column for BusinessWeek.com called "Valley Girl" and is co-host of Yahoo! Finance's Tech Ticker. She lives in San Francisco.  Her personal website is here.
 

 

 


 

Jon Fortt

 

Jon Fortt is Silicon Valley bureau chief for financial news network CNBC.  Previously, he was senior writer for FORTUNE, where he focused on technology and innovation in Silicon Valley. He authored the Big Tech column on Fortune.com.
 

Fortt was a senior editor for Business 2.0 where he edited the "What Works" section. Before Business 2.0, he was an assistant business editor at the San Jose Mercury News, supervising coverage of real estate and personal finance.
 
As a reporter, Fortt also had stints covering technology and education at the Mercury News. Prior to joining the Mercury News, Fortt covered technology, telecommunications and utilities at the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader.

 

 

Kym McNicholas

 Kym McNicholas is Anchor/Reporter for the Forbes Video Network, based in Burlingame, CA. She covers technology and other news from the Silicon Valley.  


 She has covered business and technology news for much of her 11-year broadcasting career, including as an anchor/reporter at ON24 Business News, Rob Black & Your Money on KRON 4 in San Francisco, and for Energy News Live.  

She’s interviewed top company executives, analysts, and other experts on technology and the markets, and covered the tech boom/bust/re-emergence in the Valley as well as the energy crisis/recovery.

 

Tom Giles 

Tom Giles is editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek's award winning technology channel based in San Francisco. Before joining BusinessWeek.com in August 2005, he was deputy technology team leader at Bloomberg News, where he spent more than eight years and was a finalist for a Loeb Award.

At Bloomberg, he covered telecommunications in San Francisco, financial services in London, and foreign exchange in New York. A native Angeleno, Giles holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton, where he graduated cum laude. Though he’s a late convert to Twitter, you can follow his tweets here: http://twitter.com/tsgiles.

 

 Brad Stone

Brad Stone joined the New York Times in December 2006. He covers Internet trends, as well as technology companies like Apple, Amazon and Facebook from the newspaper’s San Francisco bureau. In addition to writing for the paper, he regularly contributes to the Times’ technology blog, Bits.
 

From 1998 to November 2006, Stone served as the Silicon Valley Correspondent for Newsweek magazine, writing for the technology and business sections of the magazine and authoring a regular online column
 

He joined the Newsweek writing staff in 1996 as a general assignment reporter and covered a wide range of subjects. He wrote about Mark McGwire's home run chase during the summer of 1998, the jury deliberations in the Timothy McVeigh trial, and profiled authors such as Kurt Vonnegut. He was also a frequent contributor to Wired magazine, and has written for publications such as More magazine and the Sunday Telegraph in London.
 

Brad graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and is originally from Cleveland, Ohio.

 

 

Jon Swartz

 

Jon Swartz, USA TODAY’s award-winning technology reporter and Pulitzer Prize nominee, covers Silicon Valley trends, social networking, and various aspects of Internet security including software, spam and hacking.

 

 A high-tech journalist since 1987, Swartz has written for Chicago Tribune, Forbes, London Times, MacWEEK, San Francisco Chronicle and Times-Picayune.  He was named a top media influencer in the 2002 and 2003 newspapers category in Adweek Magazine's Technology Marketing Media Influencer's Report.

 

Swartz is co-author of Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity.

 

Swartz appears regularly on Yahoo FinanceVision, Tech TV’s Silicon Spin, the Mitch Albom radio show and “This Week in Northern California” on PBS among other shows.

 

Swartz graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in Journalism.
 

 

 

  

 

Richard Waters

Richard Waters is the West Coast Editor for the Financial Times. His beat covers the technology industry.

Before moving to the West Coast, Waters was based in the FT’s New York office for nine years. His roles there included Wall Street reporter, New York bureau chief, and the FT’s first information industries editor, overseeing global coverage of technology, telecommunications and media.
 

In 2004, Waters was awarded Corporate Finance Reporter of the year for his coverage of Google’s IPO. Waters was shortlisted for the Business & Finance Reporter of the Year award at the British Press Awards in 2003 and won the award in 1992 as part of a team covering the BCCI scandal. In 1988, Waters was named Accountancy Journalist of the Year.




 

Richard Hart

Richard Hart teaches classes in future media and is on the faculty of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Hart is one of the original television technology reporters, covering high tech on his Discovery Channel show NextStep. 

He continues to cover emerging technology on the web (Space.com and LiveScience.com and NextStep.com) and in syndicated broadcast reports. 
 
 He has reported and anchored for NBC, CBS and ABC CNET and the Discovery Channel. Currently, he is testing new 3D camera rigs designed for broadcast.

 

    


  

 Laura Sydell

 

Laura Sydell fell in love with the intimate storytelling qualities of radio, which combined her passion for theatre and writing with her addiction to news.

 

She's covered politics, arts, media, religion, entrepreneurship, and most recently she became the Arts & Technology Correspondent for the NPR newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.

 

Sydell considers it incredibly exciting to be reporting on the ways in which technology is changing our culture. She sees the beat as an opportunity to help listeners understand how technology is changing the way we create and live.
 

 

As a senior technology reporter on Public Radio International's Marketplace, Sydell looked at the human impact of new technologies and the personalities behind the Silicon Valley boom and bust.
 

 

Sydell has a bachelor's degree from William Smith College in Geneva, New York, and a J.D. from Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law. She lives in San Francisco and laments the fact that she is too busy to have a dog.

 

 

 

 

  

Elizabeth Corcoran

 

Elizabeth Corcoran is executive editor for technology coverage at Forbes magazine and forbes.com. At the magazine, she has written cover stories about subjects ranging from robotics to solar power.

 

Online, she has helped make forbes.com one of the most widely read business news sites in the world. She believes old media and new media can coexist surprisingly well.

Earlier in her career, Elizabeth was an award-winning staff reporter for The Washington Post, covering high-tech issues in government and Silicon Valley. She once lost her car during reporting at CIA headquarters but it was located quite quickly. Unnervingly quickly, in fact.

 

She also was an editor at Scientific American, where she wrote about supercomputing, quantum dots and the economic theories of Larry Summers. She lives in Silicon Valley.

 
 

 

 

  

   

 Maggie Shiels

 

Maggie Shiels is the BBC's first official appointee covering all things Silicon Valley.  She worked in the U.S as a stringer for the BBC between those heady years of 2000-2004. In the true spirit of the 'media tart for hire' moniker she  also worked for newspapers and magazines back in the UK.

 

The years between California stints were spent back in Scotland working as an anchor for BBC radio, doing some TV work and having a baby.  Previously, Shiels worked for the BBC in various guises on television, world service radio and anchoring the news on Radio 1, one of their most listened to stations. 

 

Career highlights include interviewing British Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher, Hollywood darling Audrey Hepburn and mockumentary stars Spinal Tap.

 

She has covered everything from the IRA bombing campaign to the UK's worst railway disaster and from London fashion week to ship launches.

 

She also appeared in a kids TV program, had a teeny tiny part in an Irvine Welsh movie and played basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters.

 

Shiels home is bonnie Scotland and she think the most important thing in life is to enjoy the here and now and do as much as possible to enrich the lives of those around you.

 

 

 

 
 

Matt Richtel

Matt makes most of his living as aNew York Times reporter, covering technology and telecommunications from the San Francisco bureau.  He began at the paper as a freelancer in 1996 and joined the staff in 2000.


Matt has written on a range of topics, including Internet gambling, identity theft, corporate espionage, video games, mobile telecommunications, the dot com bust, and Silicon Valley's economy and its culture. He wrote a seminal piece on the potential physiologically addictive qualities of computer use, and he was heavily involved in the paper's coverage of the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal.


Matt is also the author of Hooked, which USA Today said was "Pure, heart pounding escapism".  More about the book on Matt's personal website.

 

 

 

 

   

Paul Boutin

 

Paul Boutin covers Apple, social networking, digital music and video for VentureBeat.

 
Paul wrote and edited for Valleywag from 2006-2008, after several years with Wired magazine and Slate.

He now writes regularly for The New York Times  technology section.

 

 

 

 

  

  
Daisy Whitney

Daisy Whitney specializes in covering Internet video, social networking, YouTube, iTunes and other forms of online and new media distribution of content.

 

 As a multimedia reporter she is one of the first journalists to launch her own online newscast that covers the business of Internet video. Her work is regularly read and watched by executives across the television, cable, advertising and Internet businesses.

She has written for a number of publications including TelevisionWeek, Advertising Age, Shape, Business 2.0 and The Denver Post.

She is currently TelevisionWeek’s new media reporter, extensively covering broadband video, iTunes, online television, consumer-generated media, interactive television, video-on-demand and mobile programming.  Her personal website can be found at daisywhitney.com

 

 

 

  

  

   

Josh Quittner

 

 

Josh Quittner, editor-at-large for TIME, covers consumer technology in the magazine and also writes regular technology reviews on TIME.com.

 

 

   

Jessica Vascellaro

 

Jessica Vascellaro is a reporter for the San Francisco bureau of The Wall Street Journal.  She is responsible for the paper's news and feature coverage of Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other Internet startups.

 

Prior to assuming this role, she covered media companies like News Corp. and IAC/InterActiveCorp. and wireless company Research in Motion. She also covered Internet trends for the Personal Journal section of the paper, writing about topics such as social-networking, online video and search.

 

She started her career in 2003 as an intern reporter for the Associated Press and was named executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, the college’s daily newspaper, in 2004.

 

She also served as an intern reporter for The Boston Globe, a position she held for the summer of 2004. 

Born in New York City, she received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in Boston, Mass., where she graduated magna cum laude.  She resides in San Francisco. 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris O'Brien

 

 

Chris O’Brien is a columnist and blogger at the San Jose Mercury News where he writes about a wide range of business and technology issues affecting Silicon Valley. During his decade at the Mercury News, he’s covered everything from the dot-com bubble to the California energy crisis to the technology economy.

 

Previously, O’Brien was a reporter at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. where his beats ranged from local county government to the region’s emerging technology scene. He graduated from Duke University in 1991 and is grew up in Kansas.

 

In 2007, O’Brien received a News Challenge Grant from the Knight Foundation to establish The Next Newsroom Project. The goal of the project is to research and design the ideal newsroom for the next 50 years of journalism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Troy Wolverton

 

 

As the San Jose Mercury News personal technology writer, Troy Wolverton covers consumer tech trends; helps keep an eye on companies such as Apple, Electronic Arts and Palm and reviews gadgets and other tech products.

 

 

Previously, he covered a wide range of technology and consumer businesses, including Apple, eBay and Wal-Mart in reporting stints at the Mercury News, TheStreet.com and  News.com.

 

 

Troy's series on eBay's prolific use of stock options won accolades, including being a finalist for a Gerald Loeb award.