Jason Lomberg has been appointed North American editor at Power Systems Design He replaces Alix Paltre, who recently left the publication to move to Open Systems Media, and also offer a freelance writing service. With seven years at ECN (Electronic Component News) as their digital editor, Jason brings a wealth of online and newsletter experience, as well as a great track record as a journalist.
Interestingly, Jason’s most role was at Gannett Newspapers, where he was a regional audience analyst, using analytics to guide decisions across the brand. This means he brings some interesting expertise around maximizing online traffic that could help to boost the performance of the PSD website.
Jason’s new position with PSD as North America editor allows him to focus solely on the power market in North America. We’re informed that PSD is also in the process of hiring a journalist in Europe to cover the European power news, which will mean PSD is the only English language power publication to have dedicated editorial coverage in both North America and Europe as well as their long-established Chinese based publishing efforts in Mainland China.
It’s great to see PSD continuing to commit to hiring strong, experienced journalists, and I’m particularly pleased that they have decided to hire resources in Europe as well as the USA. It certainly shows that independent publications can continue to invest, and publishers don’t need to sell to large distributors to succeed.
Jason can be reached at: Jason@powersystemsdesign.com.