Ed Oswald

Ed Oswald is a respected freelance technology journalist, who has spent much of the past four years in the business covering digital media. His current regular projects include writing for the quickly growing technology web log Technologizer, as well as a contributing writer position with Vancouver-based Suite101.

Previous to freelancing, Ed was a Senior Writer with BetaNews.com from November 2004 to September 2008. While there, his focuses were Apple and the digital media and entertainment industries. But those were not the only things Ed covered: his interests broadened to include the topics of net censorship, the intersection of politics and the Internet, and online copyright.

With an interest in technology since childhood, writing about it came easy. A self-proclaimed "gadget geek," life in the technology news business is something he enjoys quite a bit.

Technology is not the only thing that gets Ed going. He also has a lifelong interest in the weather, spurred by his grandmother buying him his first weather station when he was five. Ever since then, even though taking a different career path he has always kept one eye to the skies.

This interest in weather also spurred Ed to develop several weather websites, which he ran or helped run through the late 90s and much of this decade. He is also a member of the National Weather Service's Skywarn program for the Mount Holly, NJ office, where he is County Coordinator for Berks County, Pa. and net control for Skywarn's weekly amateur radio nets.

Previous to working with BetaNews and online media, Ed started out his career in television news, at both WMGM-TV in Atlantic City, NJ and Blue Ridge Communications Cable-11, a cable-access channel in south central Pennsylvania. During college, he was a reporter for the campus' weekly news program, Temple Update, from 2001 to 2003.

Outside of work, Ed enjoys working on his Volkswagens, amateur radio, and local stock car racing, which he helps out on a friend's pit crew every Friday night during the summer months.

Ed is a 2003 graduate of Temple University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. He currently resides in Reading, Pa.