History
The magazine was started byCovering The New York Times
Twice eWeek had stories about The New York Times having its guard down: * The Times' web site infected computers of on-line subscribers one weekend in 2009 * Midweek, even more visibly that above, the Times' website was down for over two hours, mid-day; the magazine used the word "nefarious." AnBuyers' guides
John Pallatto, a writer for ''PCWeek'' in its first year, produced a full buyer's guide on all DOS-compatible PCs on the market. Early promotional publications from ''PCWeek'' show them describing their key audience as "volume buyers", that is, people and companies that would buy PCs in bulk for business purposes. With this the magazine was able to show big computer companies that advertising in an issue of ''PCWeek'' was the best possible way to get their product seen by the biggest and most important buyers.Later success
''PCWeek'' grew. Scot Peterson became eWeek's main editor in 2005, having been, a Ziff-Davis employee since 1995, and previously held the title news editor. People involved in between ''PCWeek's'' initial success and change to ''eWeek'' were David Strom, Sam Whitmore, Mike Edelhart, Gina Smith, Peter Coffee, Paul Bonner, current editor Chris Preimesberger and many others. Jim Louderback, a lab director at ''PCWeek'' as of 1991, describes how they were able to "get a product in on Wednesday, review it, and have it on the front page on Monday" and that "that was something we were the first to do". In 2012, ''eWeek'' and other Ziff Davis assets were acquired by the companyEvolution
As the whole PC Industry evolved, ''PCWeek'' grew, and also developed a very active audience that spoke of their experiences, good and bad. Successor ''eWeek'' is even more oriented towards "Lab-based product evaluation," and covers a wide range tech topics.Writers
Among former/current writers are: * Jessica Davis * Scott Ferguson, former Editor in Chief of eWeek, 2006 - 2012 (when eWeek stopped their print edition "and eWeek became an all-digital publication"). * Todd Weiss, Senior Writer ("all things mobile")Influence
A famous part of ''PCWeek'' was the fictional gossip columnist by the name of "Spencer F. Katt". The column would cover all sorts of rumors and gossip about the PC Industry, and the character of Spencer F. Katt became a famous icon of the entire world of computing. ''PCWeek'' had influence on the PC Industry that it covered and the success of business PCs contributed to the success of ''PCWeek''. John Pallatto characterizes the rise of PCs in 1985 as a "social phenomenon", and says that "the most sought-after status symbol on Wall Street in 1985... was the key to unlock the power switch on an IBM PC AT". ''PCWeek'' was licensed in other countries, notably Australia, where it was first published by ''Australian Consolidated Press''. Towards the end of the 1990s, the title shifted to a publishing partnership between Ziff-Davis and Australian Provincial Newspapers where its final Australian editor was Paul Zucker. One story from ''PCWeek'' that is well known is their coverage of "the famous 1994 flaw in the numerical processor in Intel's Pentium chip". The news they broke on Intel's processor, along with other research, caused Intel to actually pull back and fix their chips before offering new ones. Current editor in chief Chris Preimesberger, who joined eWEEK in 2005 as a free-lancer, now runs a staff consisting of mostly free-lancers, many of whom have worked full time for eWEEK in the past and at other IT publications. The readership has been loyal through the years and now consists mostly of veteran IT professionals, company executives, software developers, investors and other people interested in the ebb and flow of the IT business and trends in products and services.Training
After 14 years at PC week, Sam Whitmore started his own firm (Media Survey). The latter, after over 2 decades, began a fellowship to train future reporters.References
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