Juan Carlos Perez

Juan Carlos Perez, based in Miami, is assistant news editor for IDG News Service. He covers on-premise and cloud enterprise communication and collaboration products from vendors like Microsoft, Google, Cisco and IBM; Windows operating systems; enteprise application development tools and platforms; browsers; and Microsoft's corporate strategy and financial performance.

Juan is also part of the editing staff, helping plan coverage, coach writers and edit copy.

Juan has been covering IT since 1995, when he became a member of Computerworld's first online edition. He joined the News Service in 1997 as its first-ever Latin America correspondent and later became its Latin America news editor and a U.S. assistant news editor.

He has covered a wide variety of topics in IT, including databases, IT consulting and services, Linux and open source, Latin America's IT and telecom market, and, most recently, Internet issues. While at Computerworld, he won an American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) award for a story he cowrote about Apple.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Juan is fully bilingual in Spanish and English. He has a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from the University of Puerto Rico and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

While in college, Juan wrote scripts for two popular sitcoms in Puerto Rico, did a weekly report on San Juan's cultural scene for a local radio station, wrote music and theater reviews for a local daily, and edited a literary magazine. He likes to read, go to the movies, listen to music and spend time with his family.