About

Managing Editor

Martin Sims

Martin Sims is a journalist and academic who specialises in communications policy issues. He has first hand experience of the UK broadcasting sector, having worked as a News Editor in independent radio then as a journalist for BBC network news. In the last five years he has concentrated on broadcasting and telecoms policy, lecturing at the University of East London and editing Intermedia, the policy journal of the International Institute of Communications. He contributed a chapter to The Handbook of Corporate Communications published by Routledge in 2004. He has an MA in Communications from the University of Westminster.

Contributing editors

Jonathan Watson

Dr Jonathan Watson has worked as a business journalist for a variety of organisations including Screen Digest, Analytica and Euromoney Publications, where he was Editor of Broadcasting Strategy. He has written several business reports including Broadband Internet access in Europe and a study of the global market for video-on-demand, both for Screen Digest. He has a PhD in Modern History.

Ian McInnes

Ian McInnes is a journalist and author with a specialism in defence and technology issues. He has written numerous business reports aimed at the defence community including Software Radio; Military GPS: Systems, Technology and Markets; and Military Communications & COTS 2006.

Michael Newlands

Michael Newlands has extensive experience of covering the telecoms sector, particularly in the Far East. He has reported on the sector for a variety of publications, including Total Telecom, Global Telecoms Business and Infoconomy. He has also written business reports for Informa Telecoms and Media and is a former Asia Pacific Bureau Chief for ComputerWire.