MISaustralia.com - about us

About Us

MISAustralia.com is the place where the unparalleled strengths of MIS and The Australian Financial Review's Information team come together online.

At its heart, MISAustralia.com shares the same mission as MIS does in print - to bring the best, most informative writing on IT management to Australia's business technology leaders.

Breaking IT and communications news from the AFR, as well as daily, online-only stories available exclusively on the website, add to MIS' award-winning coverage.

MISAustralia.com also offers exclusive video and podcast interviews with CIOs and the heavyweights of the IT industry, as well as blogs from our journalists, product reviews and the best in IT writing from Fairfax's stable of IT titles around the Asia Pacific. Regular updates are available via email and RSS feeds.

MISAustralia.com has been enjoying solid audience growth and additional redevelopment planned for 2008 will further capitalise on our unmatched editorial resources..

Like MIS and The Australian Financial Review, MISAustralia.com is critical reading for anyone serious about being a member of Australia's IT community.

Paul Smith

Paul
Smith Paul is the editor of MIS and has been writing about the challenges faced by leading technology executives since the heady days of the dotcom boom. A part of the launch team of MIS’ English cousin, he has since become an award-winning journalist in Australia writing for MIS and The Australian Financial Review.

Chris Jenkins

Chris Jenkins Chris is the online editor for MIS Australia, and is a regular contributor to MIS and The Australian Financial Review. Prior to joining MIS in August 2007, Chris was online editor for News Ltd's AustralianIT and a reporter and occasional TV and music reviewer for The Australian. He has been covering technology since the turn of the century.

Ben Woodhead

Ben Woodhead Ben is editor of The Australian Financial Review's Information section. He has reported on the Australian technology industry since the late 1990s, covering topics from government outsourcing to gaming and venture capital. An award winning journalist with experience in online and print, and has held senior reporting positions on The AFR and The Australian.

Michael Crawford

Michael
Crawford.jpg Michael is deputy editor of MIS. His career began writing news, crime and features for News Ltd papers. He then worked as a freelance journalist for Computerworld magazine before joining full-time in 2004, becoming senior reporter and web audio producer at Computerworld, before moving to deputy editor of CIO magazine in 2007.

Julian Bajkowski

Julian Bajkowski Julian is an award winning journalist who has broken some of the biggest stories in the Australian technology sector in recent years. Formerly news editor at Computerworld he has been deputy editor on MIS and a reporter for the Australian Financial Review since late 2005.

Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay Renai began his career in the IT industry at the turn of the decade, but quickly decided he'd rather write about technology than actually implement it. He now covers the sector as a journalist for The Australian Financial Review and MIS, after a reporting career that has included stints on ZDNet Australia and Australia.Internet.com.

John Davidson

John Davidson John is the very senior columnist for Digital Life Labs, Australia's pre-eminent ficticious laboratory. He reviews gadgets and comments on science and technology. He came to The AFR more than a decade ago, swapping a programmer's life in front of a keyboard and screen for a journalist's life in front of a keyboard and screen.

Mark Jones

Mark Jones Mark is an award-winning technology journalist with more than 10 years experience in digital and print and is The Australian Financial Review's former IT editor. He has been involved in the development of MISaustralia.com and hosts MISAustralia.com's The Scoop podcast. Mark also runs a media consulting business, Filtered Media.