Jennifer L. Schenker has been a journalist for more than 25 years. She got her start in 1978 working for Time Magazine in Israel. Later she worked for daily papers owned by the three largest newspaper chains in the United States, including the Miami Herald. She has been covering the tech industry in Europe since 1985. After working for McGraw-Hill’s Electronics and Data Communications magazines.

Ms. Schenker joined the start-up team of Communications Week International, a biweekly business/technology newspaper which covered the global telecommunications industry. She started at Communications Week International as a reporter in August of 1988 and later was promoted to European editor, executive editor, senior executive editor and editor-in-chief. From 1996 to 1998 she worked for the Wall Street Journal Europe, covering breaking technology news and working as the assistant managing editor of Convergence, the Journal’s quarterly technology magazine.

She worked as a senior writer/technology for Time Magazine in Europe and was editor of Time Digital, a quarterly technology report, from January of 1999 to April 2003. From May 2003 through September 2004 she worked as the International Herald Tribune’s technology writer. She was international editor of the Red Herring, after it was relaunched as a weekly news magazine covering the tech, biotech and alternative energy industries worldwide, from October 2004 until April 2007. Since May of 2007 she has been a technology writer for BusinessWeek.