Contributors to the ASBPE National Blog include members of the national blog committee, which is responsible for its overall content, as well as other ASBPE national and chapter officers, working business-to-business editors and consultants.
Tonie Auer is the past president of ASBPE’s Dallas/Fort Worth chapter. She helped launch the ASBPE National Blog and served as the blog committee chairwoman from its launch until mid-2010. She is an award-winning journalist working as a real estate writer for Bisnow on Business covering Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin. She can be reached at tonie@bisnow.com.
Jay Campbell is ASBPE’s blog chair and a former editorial director of The BTN Group at Northstar Travel Media. Jay became a journalist when he was a teenager and followed his interest in travel into trade publishing. He has covered the business travel industry as a reporter for 20 years. Jay founded and co-founded—and then sold—two B2B media companies in 2006 and 2010, and is now a part-time freelancer and most-time Dad.
Roy Harris, a former national president of ASBPE, has been a senior editor at The Economist Group’s Boston-based CFO magazine for nearly 13 years. Previously, he was with The Wall Street Journal as a reporter and editor for 23 years, including six as deputy chief of its 14-member Los Angeles bureau. He recently became the author of his first book, Pulitzer’s Gold, a history of a near-century of the most coveted Pulitzer Prize: the gold medal for newspaper public service. His email address is RoyHarris@cfo.com.
Howard Rauch is president of Editorial Solutions Inc., a consultancy focusing on B2B magazines. Rauch is the 2002 recipient of ASBPE’s Lifetime Achievement Award. You can contact him directly at howard@editsol.com.
Steven Roll is assistant managing editor, State Tax, published by Arlington, Va.-based Bloomberg BNA. He was president of ASBPE from August 2007 through July 2009. Previously, he served as chapter president for ASBPE’s Washington, D.C., chapter from 2003-2007. He coedited Journalism That Matters, a book of case studies about B2B journalists whose stories triggered important changes within government or industry. The Multistate Tax Report has won ASBPE awards for newsletter general excellence and original research. Roll has been named as a finalist in BNA’s Editorial Excellence Award competition several times. He lives in Kensington, Maryland.
Jim Romeo is a freelance writer based in Chesapeake, Virginia. He is a mechanical engineer with and MBA and writes about business and technology. His new leaf in 2010 is to network more and start calling himself a technology evangelist because it sounds cool! www.JimRomeo.net, freelancewriting@yahoo.com.
Martha Spizziri is a Boston-based freelance writer and is ASBPE’s web editor. She is also vice president of ASBPE’s Boston/New England chapter. She worked for many years at Reed Business Information, where she served as web editor of Modern Materials Handling, managing editor of Digital News & Review, and in various positions at Traffic Management (now Logistics Management). She has written for About.com and for DC Velocity magazine. She can be reached at mspizziri@rcn.com.
Jim Sulecki has more than 25 years of editorial, publishing management and sales/marketing experience in business-to-business and consumer media. Currently he manages Meister Media Worldwide’s 20 brand and custom websites, 12 branded e-newsletters, custom e-media, webinars, and online video/audio, crafting sales and marketing strategies and developing online content and search engine optimization programs. He was named “Innovator in Business Media: Online Executives” by BtoB Media Business magazine in June 2009.
Thomas R. Temin is a consultant with 30 years of publishing experience in media and information technology products and services. He is co-host of “The Federal Drive” with Tom Temin and Jane Norris, a weekday morning news and talk program on Federal News Radio AM 1050 in Washington D.C. You can see his weekly column on the op-ed page at www.federalnewsradio.com and contact him at tom.temin@gmail.com.