Michael Fitzgerald is a leading voice in the movement to revive the Old Journalism. A fervent believer that print will rise again, he works to slip slice-of-life stories into hip urban periodicals, tuck thoughtful narratives amongst the well-endowed pages of men's magazines and place Byronic polemical poems into avant-garde reviews. He will eat Spam, and shuns both blogs and self-publishing.

To pay the mortgage and keep the kids in childcare, he writes on technology and business trends for the Economist, Inc., MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, Stanford Social Innovation Review and other magazines.

Prior to going freelance, he held senior editorial management and reporting positions at Red Herring, ZDNet News, "TechTV" and Computerworld. He developed the breaking analysis approach to stories that earned redherring.com several awards, including a Folio Gold Award for Editorial Excellence. He was the founding News Editor at ZDNet, one of the Web's 20 largest sites before it was subsumed by CNet.

Among his journalistic honors are two prestigious Computer Press Association awards for Best News Story, one as a writer, one as an editor. He was also named Most Prominent Cyberwriter in the 2000 Presstige Awards.

Mr. Fitzgerald is not above appearing on television, and has done so numerous times for "CNN," "CNBC" and "Bloomberg TV," among others.

Mr. Fitzgerald is married and lives with his wife and sons in the Boston area. He holds a degree in history from the University of Chicago.