Elizabeth Heichler

Elizabeth Heichler is editor in chief of the IDG News Service, based in Boston. She oversees all operations of a news organization spanning three continents, setting coverage priorities and liaising with the editors of IDG’s approximately 300 technology publications worldwide.

Elizabeth joined IDG in 1988 as a staff writer at Digital News, rising to news editor of that publication before joining the News Service in 1992. She spent two years in the United Kingdom serving as senior correspondent for Europe, and has been editor in chief since 2000. In her career as a technology journalist, Elizabeth has covered application development, technical computing and design, and manufacturing automation in depth, among other topics. She has monitored India’s emergence as a software development center since visiting the country in the early 1990s and is keenly interested in how globalization effects the technology industry. 

Elizabeth has led the News Service's push into multimedia journalism, inaugurating the daily IDG Global IT News Update podcast in 2005 and adding news video to the service's offerings the next year. The IDG News service now produces videos on breaking news stories daily and supplies the weekly video World Tech Update to multiple online publications.

Elizabeth is always open to speaking to news makers and helping direct them to the appropriate reporter on the News Service staff. Her personal interests include traveling with her husband and son and enjoying music, literature and cheese. She is a graduate of Boston University.

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