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Peter Sayer
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 Peter Sayer is bureau chief for IDG News Service in Paris. His beat covers IT and telecommunications across Europe -- but particularly Italy and France, including local companies France Télécom and Alcatel. He follows developments in intellectual property legislation, and plans to write more about the environmental impact of computing.
Sayer has been reporting on European IT and networking for over a decade, but in his first job in journalism he wrote about architecture and the construction industry. Between 1996 and 1998, he edited two monthly magazines about mobile telecommunications, and then went on to edit the telecommunications pages of CMP's Network Week, joining the News Service in 1999.
Aged 14 or so (his memory is hazy) Sayer won a programming contest run by British magazine 'Your Computer,' after editing his entry down from 14 lines of BASIC to just three densely-packed lines of code. His fascination with IT -- and editing -- had begun.
He holds a masters' degree in electronic systems, from way back when ATM and GSM were but twinkles in the standards bodies' eyes. He is fluent in French and can get by in German and Italian, although he is most comfortable speaking his native British English. His efforts to learn Mandarin Chinese are advancing more slowly than he would like.
Outside work, he enjoys cycling and is active in associations lobbying to make Paris safer for cyclists.
Stories:
Sony and others fined for price-fixing in France
France Plans to Increase Electronic Surveillance
France expected to cut iPod levy in time for Christmas
The Olympics network: Faster, stronger -- and redundant
The IDG News Service distributes exclusive news, features, columns and graphics to Computerworld, CIO, NetworkWorld, PC World, Macworld and Infoworld – technology publications and web sites that account for more than 300 titles circulated in more than 85 countries.
News Service staff journalists report from Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Beijing, Bangalore, Paris, London, Brussels, Dublin, New York, Miami, Washington, Boston and San Francisco, and their stories are supplemented by contributions from IDG media worldwide. Each week day, the News Service distributes more than 100 stories across IDG’s global network of technology media outlets.
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