New editor for Computerworld magazine

For immediate release 27 May 2010

New editor for Computerworld magazine

Fairfax Magazine’s Computerworld has appointed Sarah Putt as its new editor.

Sarah is an experienced journalist who has spent the past five years specialising in telecommunications and technology. Last year she re-launched the Telecommunications Review magazine as a print and online publication. This year Sarah was a finalist in the prestigious HiTech Technology Journalist of the Year Award, which recognises excellence from the country’s makers of high-technology products.

Prior to this, Sarah ran events, wrote a blog and edited the TUANZ Topics magazine for the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ), a not-for-profit organisation that promotes the needs of the country’s end-users of telecommunications.

Julie Gill, General Manager of Fairfax Business Group, says Sarah’s passion for the transformative power of telecommunications and desire to help readers at every level of corporate life make informed business decisions about the management and deployment of information technology makes her the top choice to lead Computerworld’s expert team.

“We are delighted to announce Sarah’s appointment as the editor of Computerworld, a title which has delivered some of the best technology journalism in New Zealand for more than two decades,” says Julie. “Sarah is well placed to lead Computerworld and guide its readers during a period of great change for media, telecommunications and Information Technology.

“Her starting point with every article is to ensure the reader is informed, helped and entertained, whether they are a CIO of a major corporate, the owner of a fledgling start-up, or a company executive at an IT or telco provider.”

Computerworld's readership rose to 49,000 last year, from 36,000 in 2008, according to the latest Nielsen Media readership research, released in February. That 36 percent increase was the largest recorded by any magazine in the Nielsen survey of magazine readership in 2009. Online, Computerworld's domestic traffic (unique browsers) rose 21 percent last year.

Computerworld’s website was re-launched this week with a new format, look and feel that allows better integration and will improve the user experience.

ENDS

Source:
Readership: Nielsen National Readership Survey Jan – Dec 2009
Circulation: NZ Audited Bureau of Circulation; Total Net Circulation; July – Dec 2009

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