| Marek Fuchs |
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Marek Fuchs was a stockbroker for Shearson Lehman Brothers and a money manager before becoming a journalist who wrote The New York Times' "County Lines" column for six years. He also did back-up beat coverage of The New York Knicks for the paper's Sports section for two seasons and covered other professional and collegiate sports. He contributed frequently to many of the Times' other sections, including National, Metro, Escapes, Real Estate, Arts & Leisure, Travel, Money & Business, Circuits and the Op-Ed Page.
| In addition, Fuchs writes and stars in "The Business Press Maven" video columns for TheStreet.com, on how business and finance are covered by the media. The videos are syndicated on Yahoo! Finance, where they are regularly the portal’s featured video. For his work on that column, he was named the nation's best critic of business journalism by the University of North Carolina's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He was also nominated as best online business columnist by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Fuchs was formerly editor-in-chief of Fertilemind.net, a financial website twice named "Best of the Web" by Forbes Magazine. His book A Cold-Blooded Business, (Skyhorse, distributed by W.W. Norton), based on a murder story he covered for The New York Times, was a Top 10 seller in the Murder book category on Amazon.com, and was called “riveting” by Kirkus Reviews. He also wrote a chapter for a book, Over the Hill and Between the Sheets (Springboard Press, a Warner Book). Fuchs speaks regularly on business and journalism issues at venues ranging from annual meetings of the Society of American Business Editors and Writer to National Public Radio. He teaches journalism at Manhattan College in New York City.
Fuchs, who lives in a loud house with three children, is a volunteer firefighter.
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| Jeffrey Rothfeder |
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Jeffrey Rothfeder is former National News editor at Bloomberg News, Department Editor at Business Week, Editor in Chief at PC Magazine and Executive Editor at Time Inc. Currently, he is Contributing Editor at Popular Science, CIO Insight, Strategy + Business and a freelance journalist who specializes in privacy, risk and resilience issues and writes frequently on these topics. He has been a featured speaker addressing privacy and security issues for the past two years at the global Digital Summit in Seoul, Korea, a
meeting attended by worldwide technology policymakers and business leaders.
| He has written five books, including Privacy for Sale, (Simon and Schuster: 1992), which was the first book to focus on privacy in a society driven by databanks. Privacy for Sale was named the Computer Book of the Year and was a critical and commercial success. Later books include The People Vs. Big Tobacco (Bloomberg Press: 1998) and Every Drop for Sale (Tarcher/Putnam: 2001). Rothfeder is also editor of two Booz Allen Hamilton books on risk and resilience: The Missing Link - Designing Supply Chains for Growth, Profitability and Resilience and the forthcoming Manufacturing Realities - Breaking the Boundaries of Conventional Practice. He has won numerous awards including Excellence in Technology Writing, the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award and the American Society of Business Publications Editors award for feature writing. In 1999, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, PC World, Chief Executive,
St. Petersburg Times, Science, This Old House, Popular Science, CIO Insight, Consumer Reports, Forbes, Strategy and Business, among many other publications.
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