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Stephen Lawton

Stephen Lawton is an award-winning writer and editor with more than 30 years of experience in business and consumer journalism, and market research. He also has extensive marketing and public relations experience.

Stephen served as editorial director and editor-in-chief of MicroTimes. He is a longtime technology journalist and served as chief editor of Digital News & Review, NetscapeWorld and SunWorld. In addition, he held senior editorial positions at LAN Times, Digital News and the subsequent Digital News & Review, Hardcopy and Computer Systems News. He appeared as the computer expert for Bloomberg Radio's The Money Show on the company's flagship station, BLOOMBERG 1130 (WBBR-AM) in New York City and has been a frequent guest on Let's Talk Computers, Computer America, The Jeff Levy Show and other radio programs throughout the country.

He has contributed to a variety of publications, including CIO Insight, Electronic Business, NetworkWorld and the National Journal, and was a columnist for California Computer News.

On the corporate side, Stephen currently serves as senior director of strategic marketing for Acronis, Inc., a storage and systems management software company based in Burlington, MA. The company's flagship program, Acronis True Image, has won more than 100 major awards, including multiple awards from Redmond, PC Magazine, CNET, PC World, Maximum PC, PC Pro, Smart Computing, IT Week, Web Week, Web Hosting Week, and many others, as well as a Best Buy Award from Consumers Digest. The company has been featured in literally thousands of news, feature and product review articles, reaching billions of readers worldwide.

Stephen served a limited partner in Haskin Marketing and Publishing, a Foster City, Calif.-based custom publishing company where he worked in new product development and strategic planning. He served as vice president of content at DataRise, an international transportation infrastructure company that produced international transportation documentation for Fortune 100 enterprises, freight forwarders and logistics companies; and director of marketing for Vision Point Automation, a robotics manufacturer.

Among his honors are the 1999 Gold Award for Signed Editorials from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), Western Region, and finalist in 1999 for Most Visionary Editor-in-Chief from Press Access. In addition, MicroTimes also was honored when columnist Chris Barnett was cited for his feature writing by the ASBPE in its 2001 competition. While Stephen was chief editor of Digital News & Review, the magazine won one Gold Medal and two Silver Medals for its design and graphics in the 1995 Cahners Publishing Medal of Excellence competition. 

In addition to his staff editing positions, Stephen has written for a variety of publications, including such consumer publications and Web sites as the PC Week, New Media Magazine, PC Upgrade, Computer Technology Review, Bank Administration, Computer Monthly, Inform and Computer Buyers' Guide & Handbook. Among the business publications he has written for are Electronic Business, Military & Aerospace Electronics and Computer Retail Week.

He also served as a marketing consultant and industry analyst. His past consulting clients include Intel, Microsoft, Western Digital, Verbatim, and Transitional Technology. He served on the staff of Rothchild Consultants and did consulting projects for Hartley & Associates, HTE Research, Data Storage Concepts and Peripheral Strategies.

Stephen launched his career as a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s and is credited as being the author who popularized the computer industry term "intranet" (Digital News & Review, April 24, 1995). Earlier, he edited the book Re:Organize (published by Hartley & Associates) and co-authored and produced "Best Newspaper Design," a newspaper design and graphics presentation used by more than 200 college- and university-level journalism schools in the 1980s.

His professional memberships - current and past - include the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) as a Member-At-Large, Computer Press Association, American Society of Business Publication Editors, and the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society.

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