carol ellison

“…ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not his subject, but who he is.”
– William Zinsser, On Writing Well

Carol Ellison is an award-winning business and technology journalist who has held senior and executive editorial positions with the nation’s two largest hi-tech publishers, Ziff Davis Media and CMP Media, since 1986. As partner of Ellison Associates, she is a regular contributor to Muniwireless.com, “the voice of public broadband,” and CRM magazine.

She launched CMP’s VARBusiness University, an online resource center for hi-tech integrators and value-added resellers and, as education editor at HomePC magazine, was the founder and director of the HomePC Kids’ Lab, the nation’s first independent software testing lab for children. As executive editor of Ziff Davis’ IT Insider Series, she launched a newsletter/Web site/conference offering focused on intranets and extranets for corporate IT executives.

Prior to joining the ranks of technology journalists, Carol was editor-in-chief at two Scripps-Howard community newspapers. She has authored and contributed to five books, including Parents, Computers & Kids (Random House) and Netware Power Tools (Brady). Her reports on technology in business and education have appeared in PCMagazine, VARBusiness, Child magazine, Compute!, Electronic Entertainment, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, the Newark Star Ledger and The Cincinnati Post.

As a technology and education expert, she has been widely quoted in the press, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared as a guest commentator on Oprah, CNN, Today in New York, the Financial News Network (now CNN/FN) and three satellite tours reaching diverse local media markets.