John Dodge

Who is John Dodge?

A journalist for 33 years, John M. Dodge is a freelance writer and social media consultant. He is co-author of the Thinking Tech blog at SmartPlanet.com, writing netbook reviews for eWeek.com, consulting on social media, and contributing to his tech/personal blog The Dodge Retort.

He spent nearly 20 years in top editorial and management positions at Ziff Davis Publishing Co.. He was editor and executive editor/news at eWeek and vice president of news for Ziff Davis, where he coordinated all of the technology news across the company's websites. Dodge worked at ZD from 1983-2002 except for two and a half years at CMP, another high tech publishing company.

Dodge was also a weekly e-business columnist for the Wall Street Journal online, author of a bi-weekly technology column for the Boston Globe, and a contributor to a technology column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has appeared on CBS MarketWatch, CNN, Bloomberg, ABC's World News Tonight and other major broadcast outlets around the country.

Until January, 2009, he was editor-in-chief of engineering publication Design News, a position he held for two years.