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	Editor-in-Chief, Studio/monthly Beth Marchant Beth has more than 20 years of staff editorial experience at trade and consumer publications and has been covering the digital video, animation and new media markets since 1996, when she joined Multimedia Producer as a senior editor. In 2000, she became editor-in-chief of the newly merged AV Video Multimedia Producer. In addition to her award-winning coverage of digital technology, her articles and profiles about culture and travel have been syndicated by the Gannett News Service and have appeared in Yankee and Harvard Magazine. More recently, her StudioDaily.com articles have been aggregated by top sites such as Digg, del.icio.us, Technorati and YouTube. A graduate of Hamilton College and London’s British and European Studies Group, she also holds an M.A. in English literature and film theory and is a past recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Studio/monthly.
	Managing Editor, Studio/monthly Jessica Clegg Jessica joined Studio/monthly in 2007. She spent the previous three years in the media-technology division of Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Education, where she worked as an Editor. A graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia’s six-week Publishing Intensive, Jessica is a regular volunteer at the TriBeCa and Woodstock Film Festivals and a blogger for Bergencarroll.com, a community site devoted to the residents of Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill and Red Hook neighborhoods.
	Group Publisher, Studio Group Laurie Powell
	Contributors
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly Jim Feeley Jim, who writes our monthly “Issues” column, has created digital media for nearly 30 years, and has written about it for more than 15. He was a lab analyst and editor at Macworld magazine from 1991 to 1996, and a member of DV magazine's editorial staff from 1996 to 2004. Concurrent with his magazine jobs, he worked on documentary films and public-affairs journalism. In 2004 he left the editorship of DV to focus full time on documentary production through his company, POV Media. Jim lives and works near San Francisco.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly and Film & Video Erik Holsinger Erik Holsinger is both a journalist and a working producer. Erik has covered media production in four published books and dozens of articles for AV Video Multimedia Producer Millimeter, PC World, Wired, and others. As a producer, Erik has created a wide variety of programs, from fine arts documentaries to interactive theme-park rides. As a composer, Erik's scores have been heard in national commercials as well as on PBS. Erik is currently president and executive producer of Media Alchemy, a Seattle media/entertainment company specializing in fine arts programming.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly Douglas Spotted Eagle Douglas Spotted Eagle, a producer and founder of the Sundance Media Group and VASST Training Series, is the author or co-author of several digital media books, including Digital Video Basics (VASST), HDV: What You NEED to Know (VASST, also available on Amazon.com) and Vegas Editing Workshop (CMP Books). In addition to creating music and media that has earned him a Grammy, DuPont, Peabody, Telly and Nammy award, he’s recorded, edited or produced media that has found its way into more than nine Emmy-nominated productions. He uses the latest technology as part of his daily workflow.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly David English David has written more than a thousand articles for publications such as Attaché, AV Video Multimedia Producer, Business 2.0, CNET, Computer Shopper, Film & Video, Fortune, Hemispheres, Inc. Magazine, Maximum PC, Mobile PC, Omni, PC Magazine, PC World, Sky and ZDNet. He is the recipient of a national Editorial Excellence Award from the American Society of Business Press Editors for "Best Technical Article: Over 80,000 Circulation," as well as a Cahners Editorial Merit Award for "Best Subject-Related Series of Articles." David has served on the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Conference Advisory Board and appeared on industry-related panels, television broadcasts and radio programs. Before embarking on his career in technology journalism, he completed a master’s degree and most of the requirements for a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly Michael Grotticelli Michael Grotticelli is a senior writer/editor who regularly writes about the professional video production technology and the industry at large. He also is editor/publisher of the Goodman’s Guide series of user-friendly camera manuals.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly/West Coast Editor, Film & Video Debra Kaufman Debra has been an entertainment industry journalist for 15 years. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Wired. Her writing on production and technology also appears regularly in The Hollywood Reporter and American Cinematographer. She is a hands-on filmmaker, recently putting the finishing touches on a new documentary about literacy in Tibet.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly David Leathers David is a musician, filmmaker, technologist and writer. After working in New York as a recording and touring musician and member of the rock group, Mink Deville, he moved to Los Angeles where he acquired extensive training in audio and video engineering, film, and video production.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly Mike Caputo Mike began his career in 1981 at a large post-production studio in New York City creating animation and special effects on an Oxberry animation stand using lights, gels, hand-painted artwork and material developed in a chemical darkroom. Today, Mike owns his own studio and shoots and edits video, creates traditional and computer animation, authors CD-ROMs, DVDs, and designs Web sites. With an array of production gear, four computers, a broadband link, and no darkroom, his is the opposite of the large, specialized studio-small, diverse, and nimble.
	Contributing Editor Bruce Nazarian Bruce is an award-winning DVD producer and author, a DVD consultant, and a longtime member of the DVD Association's advisory board. He specializes in digital media production and advising for video, audio, DVD and Web applications and is president of Gnome Digital Media. Bruce has toured the world as demonstrator and instructor for a number of DVD products, including Apple's DVD Studio Pro and is the author of DVD Studio Pro 2 - The Complete Guide for Authoring with Macintosh for McGraw-Hill, and creator of DVD Companion Pro-Pack products.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly Peter Plantec Peter is a pioneer digital-media journalist. He wrote the first digital column for Animation magazine where he originated and hosted the Annual Golden Pixie Awards. He has been a respected and often controversial columnist with AV Video Multimedia Magazine for many years and a product reviewer for several magazines such as Computer Graphics World, 3D Artist magazine and many others. His latest book, Virtual Humans, is the last word on animated virtual human design.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly Barry Green Barry Green, a working videographer based in Las Vegas, is the author of The DVX Book (and DVX DVD), available at www.dvxuser.com/articles/dvxbook/. He is also a co-producer and forum moderator, with Jarred Land, of the dvxuser.com online community site.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly Will Holloway Will has been writing for professional video- and production-industry magazines for 10 years, specializing in testing and reviewing field gear. Will started his own production company in 1992, focusing on shooting and Steadicam operation. As a DP, his favorite shooting subjects are extreme sports, martial arts (including fight and stunt coordination) and transportation documentaries or promotional films that include footage of trucks, trains, planes, ships or other large machines.
	Contributing Editor, Studio/monthly Steven Klapow Steven, the former executive editor of Studio’s predecessor, AV Video Multimedia Producer, is the director of marketing and creative director/copy at Berlin Productions, a new-edge media, marketing and design agency based in White Plains, New York. In addition to editorial posts at CommunicationsWeek and Eder Associates, a nationwide engineering firm, Steven also worked as a radio host and producer for two FM stations in the metro New York area.