Janet Stites

Janet Stites has worked as a technology, business and science writer and publisher for twenty years. Best known in the New York City-area for her work as founder and publisher of tech/finance magazine AlleyCat News, Stites recently launched "Talent Pool News (east)", a monthly online journal to cover executive moves, issues and concerns at east coast emerging growth companies.

She also works as a freelance writer for publications such as Fortune Small Business and the Bulletin of the Santa Fe Institute and researcher and consultant in business development, sales, marketing and communications, for clients such as Business Development Institute, Deloitte & Touche, North Fork Bank, and Geller & Company.

In the late eighties, she was founding publisher, editor and shareholder of the telecommunications trade magazine, PHONE+. Later she worked as a science writer for OMNI Magazine and the Santa Fe Institute. In 1994, she served as editorial director for Jupiter Communications managing newsletter, research reports and conferences. In 1995, she launched one of the first consumer online newsletters NetGuide Now!, a weekly electronic newsletter published by CMP’s NetGuide Magazine.

She has written for the Pricewaterhouse Technology Forecast and has been a frequent guest on CNNfn. She has been profiled in Fortune, Folio, CyberTimes (owned by The New York Times), Worth and more. She served on Mayor Guiliani's New Media Task Force, was a founding member of the New York-based Women in New Media, and has twice been a judge for Ernst & Young’s "Entrepreneur of the Year" award's program.

She graduated from the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and received an M.F.A. in fiction writing from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently lives in New York City with her son Sam.