Brad King

King has been a reporter since 1994. He earned his Masters of Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2000, where he won the Wired Magazine’s Excellent in Technology Journalism award for his series on the effect of MP3 technology on the music industry.

In 2003, he co-authored Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Gaming from Geek to Chic (Osborne/McGraw-Hill), which chronicled the history of virtual worlds from their roots in paper gaming through their emergence as a platform for communication and community. Later that year, Variety tapped King to launch its blog, which covered the convergence of video games and the entertainment industry. In 2004, he was hired as a senior editor and producer by MIT’s Technology Review, where he built –- from the ground up –- an award-winning, daily online news operation at the nation’s oldest technology magazine.

Since 2006, he has delivered keynote addresses on how technology is changing traditional journalism to the City and Regional Magazine Publishers Association yearly conference, two Society of Professional Journalists annual meetings and has participated in various panels and presentations across the country.

Throughout his career, he worked as a staff writer at Conde Nast’s Wired News and MIT’s Technology Review. His work has appeared in outlets such as Wired, Wired News, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety and he has appeared as a guest on dozens of national and international television and radio programs.

Currently, he is an assistant professor and program coordinator of Media Informatics at the Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky. He currently sits on the advisory board of South by Southwest Interactive, the largest, bleeding-edge consumer technology conference in the nation. He also consults with media start-ups across the country and runs a blog, social network and wiki about technology’s effect on journalism.

John Borland

John Borland has been writing about technology and its effects on popular culture, politics and communication for more than a decade. A graduate of Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley’s Masters of Journalism program, he began his reporting career covering politics and elections for California Journal magazine in Sacramento.

With more than a a little geek in his blood, he migrated to the Internet early, working for CMP’s TechWeb and then CNET News.com for more than seven years. At CNET, he won a number of national and regional journalism awards, including the SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi prize, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ Best in Business award, and the Northern California SPJ’s Excellence in Journalism award.

In 2003, with co-author Brad King, he published Dungeons and Dreamers, tracing the long development of online, game-focused communities and their influence on the broader culture of technology.

Since 2006, he has lived in Berlin, Germany as a freelance journalist.