Before joining The Bay Citizen as managing editor, Peter H. Lewis taught at Stanford University as the Hearst Visiting Professional in Residence in Stanford’s Graduate Program in Journalism, where his classes included “Digital Journalism” and “Reporting, Writing and Understanding the News.” Before joining the faculty he was a 2009-2010 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford, researching business models for online journalism.
From 1982 to 2000 he was a reporter, editor, columnist and senior writer for The New York Times, where his responsibilities included Assistant Science Editor, Assistant Financial Editor, and Deputy Travel Editor. He was the newspaper’s first Technology Editor and personally registered the nytimes.com domain. From 1984 to 1996, and again from 1997 to 2000, he was the Personal Computers and Personal Technology columnist for The Times.
In 2000 Lewis joined Fortune magazine as senior editor and columnist, covering consumer technologies. He was also a regular contributor and blogger for cnnmoney.com, the website of Time Inc.’s Fortune Group. He left Fortune in 2007 and moved to Argentina to write a novel.
Lewis is a 1982 graduate of Drake University and studied physics and journalism at the University of Kansas. He and his wife, Kathryn, an artist, live in Sonoma, California. They have two children, Laura, a clothing designer, and Nick, a Web developer.
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Hi Mr. Lewis,
I was a Gannett employee in White Plains, NY, back in the day when the newspaper was called The Reporter Dispatch. We had typewriters and monitors and real newsroom! I worked part-time at the news desk from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. writing obits and doing cop checks and last-minute news stories for three editions while attending college in the afternoons.
During the years I was a stringer/freelance reporter for that paper, whose name underwent several changes. My most recent experience was from 2007 to 2009, when I watched my friends and colleagues lose their jobs and, for some, careers. I was one of the “lucky” who remained and were herded into a room by Mike Fisch one day in August 2009; we thought our jobs were safe since we’d survived the downsizings. Hardy – we were told we were fired and had to reapply for our jobs.
I heard the Gannett building in White Plains has been sold, and the employees still in that office – after sales, printing, and a host of other departments were relocated – will be moving to its new quarters, when the location is decided. How sad that this giant company was mismanaged on so many higher levels while the reporters and editors and photographers who produced the news did the jobs we loved.