Recent Profiles

Ashlee Vance - Editor, U.S. Edition, The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/

Audience

Based in UK, The Register enjoys 4.4 million uniques a month, with 1.4 million impressions daily - half of those are from U.S. It started out as a "newsletter for chip heads" with lots of microprocessor coverage that "catered to engineers," Ashlee says. From there it began to draw more industry watchers and CEOs. He says they also get "plenty of emails from execs," adding that recent studies have shown a healthy IT buyer crowd.

Uniques per month - www.wsj.com 700,000 paid subs to WSJ.com. Readership of the US print edition: 2.1 million.

Reviews from eWeek Labs

The priority for Jim is ensuring that the reviews approach brings a full enterprise focus to the product.

The Beat

It's a monster: (web authoring and development tools, multimedia development, document and content management, portals and knowledge management, browsers, commerce and B2B applications, application servers, web servers, general labs questions) but Jim points out that most of the bullet items on the list aren't constantly being released. "It's part of the job. You have to get the product in and get it tested." He also adds that with such a senior team he relies on them to tell what what products are interesting and recommends PR pros go directly to them on products in their area of expertise.

Michael's been with the Journal for 13 years, spending much of it (seven years) in the Texas regional office before moving to be editor of the California edition in 2000. When the regional editions were rolled up, he moved to the tech reports. In that capacity he plans and edits the tech reports for the year, fielding story ideas from reporters as well as coming up with some on his own. He also does some reporting, but as an editor first he doesn't write a lot. In last 12 months Michael's written only 16 times and says "that's a good number for me -- I couldn't stand to write less."