CMP Names Fred Davis Director of Editorial Development; Ziff-Davis Veteran to Take role at CMP.MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 1995--CMP Publications, Inc. has named award-winning computer journalist and industry analyst Fred Davis Fred Davis, or Frederick Davis may refer to: In sports:
Davis, author of 12 computer books See how to find a good computer book. , joins CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information from Ziff-Davis where, for the last twelve years, he has been instrumental in the company's growth. Most recently he was West Coast Editor and columnist for Windows Sources Windows Sources was a magazine by ZDNet. It lasted from c. 1993 – c. 2001. Staff Patrick Norton ran the hardware reviews section. Carlos Carrillo was the Assistant Editor and ran the Shareware reviews section. , while also penning articles for Computer Life, Family PC and the Ziff-Davis Personal Computing newspaper supplement. "Fred brings an incredible combination of intellect, industry history, insight and perspective to CMP," Cron said, referring to Davis' twenty-five years of computer experience. "I look forward to having him on board and working with him as CMP continues to enhance and expand its leading product line and its leadership position in the high-tech market," he said. At CMP, Davis will be working with Cron, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Michael Leeds, and other top management at CMP, while also reaching more than a million CMP readers with articles he'll be contributing to CMP publications including WINDOWS Magazine, HomePC and NetGuide, and Interactive Age, the company's newspaper for electronic commerce which launched simultaneously in print and on the Internet last September. "This is a great time to be at CMP," Davis said. "At a time when other publishers can't seem to figure out how to grow, or even stay where they are, CMP continues growing. I look forward to helping further that momentum and CMP's reputation as the provider of the premier editorial products across the whole technology spectrum," he said. Davis' background in the computer industry is impressive. In the late '70s he was an early promoter of the Apple II and a founding editor of A+ Magazine, the leading publication about Apple computers, which won the Computer Press Association award for best computer magazine during his tenure. Davis has served as Editor in Chief of MacUser magazine, whose labs he founded; as Director of PC Magazine labs, where he helped develop benchmarks and scripts for testing thousands of products under review; and as Technology Editor for PC Week, whose labs he established. Named "one of the 100 most influential leaders in the computer industry," by MicroTimes and as an international "100 top computer people" by EYE-COM in Japan, Davis has earned a reputation as one of the personal computer industry's savviest analysts. He has been quoted in Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, USA Today, and U.S. News and World Report, and appeared on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered All Things Considered (ATC) is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. It was the first news program on the network, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets. ," the nationally syndicated show "On Computers," "CBS Evening News CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. " and "ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Business World." His latest book, Windows 3.1 Bible, (Peachpit Press, 1993) was hailed the best book on the topic by The New York Times, and The Washington Post said, "Throw out your other Windows books. This one is the best." CMP Publications, Inc. is a leading provider of high-tech publishing, marketing and information services See Information Systems. reaching the entire spectrum of the high-technology market. Its 16 publications reach the builders of technology with Electronic Engineering Times, Electronic Buyers' News, and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Magazine; the sellers of technology with Computer Reseller News, Computer Reseller News/Germany, Computer Retail Week, and VARBusiness; and the users of technology with InformationWeek, Interactive Age, CommunicationsWeek, CommunicationsWeek International, Informatiques Magazine, Network Computing, WINDOWS Magazine, HomePC and NetGuide. All of these publications are available on the Internet through the company's online service called TechWeb (http://techweb.cmp.com/techweb). CONTACT: CMP Publications Inc. E-Mail: cmppr@cmp.com Elizabeth Stern, 516/562-5162 Barbara Kerbel, 516/562-5218 Catherine Jarrat Koatz, 516/562-7827 |
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