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Light Reading is an independent B2B digital media platform providing daily news, analysis and insights for the global communications networking and services industry. Our coverage aims to inform and enlighten all who work in this vital, multi-trillion-dollar sector.
Founded in 2000, Light Reading has been a part of Informa Tech since July 2016. The publication is part of Informa Tech's broader portfolio of specialist research, media, events and training for businesses and professionals working in technology. Our podcasts include The Divide, What's the Story?, The Light Reading Podcast, CxO Spotlight and The Notebook Dump.
Light Reading is the leading resource for telecom, mobile and cable network operators; cloud services players; and all the companies that develop and supply them with technology, applications and professional services. The editorial team has been reporting on the key communications industry trends since the turn of the century through an unrivaled network of expert journalists and contributors worldwide.
Senior Editor
Beats: Cable and Video, soup to nuts.
Jeff is responsible for day-to-day news coverage and analysis of the cable and video sectors. After serving as Site Editor for Light Reading Cable from 2007-2013, Jeff was Senior Content Producer-Technology at Multichannel News, heading up tech coverage for the publication's online and print platforms, and was a regular contributor to Broadcasting & Cable, their sister publication. Jeff was named to the 2018 class of the Cable TV Pioneers.
Jeff is based in Highlands Ranch, Colo., and can be reached at [email protected]
Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies
Beats: 5G (and all that goes with it), Edge.
Mike is Light Reading's Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies. He has covered the wireless industry as a journalist for nearly two decades, first at RCR Wireless News and then at FierceWireless, where he most recently served as Editor-in-Chief.
Mike is based in Denver and can be reached at [email protected].
Follow @mikeddano on Twitter and find him on LinkedIn.
Editor, Light Reading, and host of The Divide
Beats: Broadband Networks, Digital Divide, Broadband Policy, musicals, dystopia.
Nicole Ferraro is an editor at Light Reading where she covers broadband policy, funding and network deployments. She's also host of "The Divide" on the Light Reading Podcast: an interview series about why and where the digital divide still exists and how companies, communities and policymakers are working to end it.
Nicole is based in New York City and can be reached at [email protected].
Follow Light Reading's broadband news on Twitter at @LRbroadband and find Nicole on LinkedIn.
Editor-in-Chief
Beats: broadband evolution, smart cities, gin cocktails, old cameras.
Phil has been a writer and editor covering networking and telecom companies and Internet startups for more than 20 years. He was a staff writer for UPSIDE and Red Herring, a contributing editor for D CEO, a managing editor at CRN and he was a writer and editor at Light Reading from October 2000 to April 2013. Phil can often be found walking around town, squinting into a camera viewfinder and complaining about the price of film.
Phil is based in Fort Worth and can be reached at [email protected]
Follow @futurephil on Twitter and find him on LinkedIn.
Podcast Producer, Head of Video, BBQ expert
Pierre Landriau, a.k.a. "Le French Producer Extraordinaire," knows his way around B2B video marketing after working at three major UK publishing companies; Haymarket, UBM and now Informa. Pierre edits and produces all of Light Reading's podcasts, maintains that he's listed on IMBD, and claims that he once wormed his way into MTV for a day or two.
Pierre is based in London and can be reached at [email protected]
Associate Editor, Light Reading
Tereza helps assign, edit, curate and produce stories from our network of contributors around the globe, with a focus on sustainability and telco IoT. Her work experience also includes writing and editing stories about energy, mobility, IoT, smart cities and fiber optic sensing. Tereza graduated from Charles University in Prague with a bachelor's degree in international area studies and a master's degree in international energy from Sciences Po in Paris. She can often be found expertly knitting.
Tereza can be reached at [email protected].
Copyeditor
Gin is responsible for copy editing Light Reading articles, producing newsletters, and overseeing social media. Gin comes to Light Reading after a year of teaching high school English during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to teaching, they copy edited for the Murray State News and research publications Steeplechase and Intraspection.
Gin is based in Madisonville, KY and can be reached at [email protected].
Find her on LinkedIn.
International Editor
Beats: Automation, AI/Analytics, International Coverage, real ale.
Iain joined Light Reading as News Editor in 2015, and now as International Editor, he is responsible for coverage of EMEA, Asia/Pacific and AI/automation. Prior to this, Iain spent 15 years as a freelance writer and editor based in London, covering the telecoms sector for outlets like The Economist, The Observer and a variety of trade and business journals. Iain was previously lead telecoms analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit, as well as a features editor at Telecommunications Magazine and editor at market-research company Analysys Mason. He follows Blackburn Rovers, so if you remind him how good they were 20 years ago, he'll buy you a pint (of real ale, only).
Iain is is based in London and can be reached at [email protected]
Copy Desk Chief and Assistant Editor, Europe
Beats: Grammar, EMEA news, British quirks.
Paul has worked as a copy editor and writer for his entire career covering the design industry, D-list celebs, tourism and more, for UK publications like The Independent, Time Out and Campaign. After a brief, seven-year interlude to run a small hotel with his wife in the wilds of Exmoor, Paul is back in the world of online journalism, where he ensures all published content across Light Reading remains top-shelf.
Paul is based on the Isle of Wight and can be reached at [email protected].
Senior Editor, Light Reading & Curator, 5G Exchange
Beats: SD-WAN, Cybersecurity, houseplants.
Kelsey is a senior editor at Light Reading, co-host of the Light Reading podcast, and host of the "What's the story?" podcast. Her interest in the telecom world started with a PR position at Connect2 Communications, which led to a comms role at the FREEDM Systems Center, a smart grid research lab at N.C. State University. There, she orchestrated their webinar program across college campuses and covered research projects like the center's smart solid-state transformer.
Kelsey enjoys reading four books at once, movies about space, crafting and (hoarding) houseplants.
Kelsey is based in Raleigh and can be reached at [email protected].
Follow @KelsKusterer on Twitter and find her on LinkedIn.
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