Media entrepreneur + publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher and other sites
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Editor at Fridays with Foremski
- Founding Fellow at Society for New Communications Research
- Editor/Publisher at http://SiliconValleyWatcher.com
- Past
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- Executive Editor at Podtech
- FT US Technology Correspondent and Columnist at Financial Times
- Editor in Chief at West Coast News-High tech news agency
- Senior Reporter at Computing
- News Editor at Micro Forecast
- Editor at Biotechnology Today
- Software Engineer at Marconi
- Education
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- Royal Holloway College- University of London
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Tom Foremski’s Summary
I have been reporting on the business of Silicon Valley for US and global newspapers and magazines since 1984. I also published a local newspaper in San Francisco 1987 to 1989. I worked full time for the Financial Times from 1999 to 2004 and contributed articles from 1985 onwards. I have been working as a media entrepreneur for much of my working life.
I am currently publishing Silicon Valley Watcher - reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. It is a news/blog site also featuring other reporters and editors. My goal is to explore emerging online business models with this, and other media ventures.
I am also involved in several new media/communications projects including changing the format of the press release so that it more accurately reflects our multi-layered media world.
I have recently begun to offer consultancy services to select companies helping them craft media strategies that encompass traditional and new/social media.
Today, every company is a media company whether they make diapers or steel. Every company needs to be able to effectively publish to their various communities, internal and external. Every company needs to be able to master the new publishing technologies of RSS, Twitter and beyond...
Tom Foremski’s Specialties:
Reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Creating media businesses. Consulting on corporate strategy. Consulting on marketing strategies. Consulting on online marketing strategies. Media and public relations strategy.
Tom Foremski’s Experience
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Editor
Fridays with Foremski
(Online Media industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
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Founding Fellow
Society for New Communications Research
(Online Media industry)
2005 — Present (4 years )
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Editor/Publisher
http://SiliconValleyWatcher.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)
Create a leading media organization/brand reporting on the business of Silicon Valley.
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Executive Editor
Podtech
(Online Media industry)
May 2007 — February 2008 (10 months)
Executive Editor of the TechOne video channel at Podtech.net.
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FT US Technology Correspondent and Columnist
Financial Times
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Newspapers industry)
September 1999 — June 2004 (4 years 10 months)
I joined the FT full-time in 1999 to help expand its US technology coverage and analysis. As the San Francisco/Silicon Valley bureau grew from just two journalists, to five, I provided guidence to arriving FT journalists on US technology companies and the many industry sectors.
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Editor in Chief
West Coast News-High tech news agency
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Newspapers industry)
November 1984 — September 1999 (14 years 11 months)
Developing, editing, reporting, and producing editorial packages of news, features and analysis for leading newspaper and magazine publications worldwide.
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Senior Reporter
Computing
(Newspapers industry)
December 1982 — November 1984 (2 years )
Technology reporting for the UK's largest weekly trade newspaper
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News Editor
Micro Forecast
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Newspapers industry)
April 1982 — December 1982 (9 months)
News editor for a leading micro-electronics newspaper.
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Editor
Biotechnology Today
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
October 1981 — April 1982 (7 months)
SWriting and commissioning articles on biotechnology developments.
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Software Engineer
Marconi
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
September 1980 — September 1981 (1 year 1 month)
Development of software for self-guiding systems. Head of Fortran standardisation group.
Tom Foremski’s Education
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Royal Holloway College- University of London
BSc. , Chemistry and Management Science , September 1977 — June 1980
Additional Information
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Tom Foremski’s Interests:
Media, hiking
Tom Foremski’s Groups:
Founding Fellow of the Palo Alto-based think tank Society for New Communications Research
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Fat Spaniel Technologies' Energy Management Group -
Cloud Performance
Tom Foremski’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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