Small Business Journalists

Emma Sheppard is a journalist and content coordinator for the Guardian Small Business Network

Antony Maina is a Staff Writer for Small Business Trends. His beat includes social media, general business reporting and exploring how people relate to technology.Antony is also a successful freelance writer and Founder of Word4Bloggers.

Jason Del Rey has been a business journalist since 2007, when he joined Inc. magazine. There, he wrote about startups and fast-growing small businesses across all industries.

Small business reporter at The Associated Press

Phyllis Furman is a financial journalist living in New York. She has worked at the New York Daily News and at Crain’s New York Business and has covered media, retail, personal finance and small business.

Author, entrepreneur, and USA Today columnist, Rhonda Abrams is widely recognized as one of the nation’s foremost experts on small business, entrepreneurship, and business planning. Through her books, writing, and speaking, Rhonda has helped millions of entrepreneurs launch and grow their own businesses. Rhonda writes the weekly small business and entrepreneurship column in USA Today. Her book, Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies is America’s bestselling business plan guide and has sold more than a million copies.

Benjamin Pimentel is a senior technology reporter at Business Insider. He covers the major players in enterprise tech and the data center and cloud computing markets, including Oracle, Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco and Nvidia. He also covered technology and Silicon Valley for the San Francisco Chronicle and Dow Jones MarketWatch.

Nate is the founder of The Digital Reader, the best ebook blog on the web. He also builds and repairs websites, and helps authors and small businesses solve tech problems.

Gill South is an experienced business journalist who has written about real estate in the UK, New Zealand and the US. She has also covered commercial property, small business, the retail industry, careers and personal finance

Roger A. Grimes is an InfoWorld contributing editor. Roger holds more than 40 computer certifications and has authored eight books on computer security. He has been fighting malware and malicious hackers since 1987, beginning with disassembling early DOS viruses. He currently runs eight honeypots to track hacker and malware behavior and consults to companies from the Fortune 100 to small businesses. A frequent industry speaker and educator, Roger currently works for Microsoft as a principal security architect.

As a small business expert, Gene writes daily for The Washington Post focusing on issues affecting the business community. He also writes weekly columns for Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Fox Business, The Huffington Post, and Entrepreneur.com. His columns are read by hundreds of thousands of small and medium sized business owners around the country. Gene has interviewed celebrity entrepreneurs such as Donald Trump and Gene Simmons.

Stacy Jones is the data editor for Fortune.com. She collects and analyzes data and builds charts and graphics for the web. Before joining the company, she was a data reporter at Bankrate.com. She also spent three years at The Star-Ledger covering small business, including the state’s recovery from Hurricanes Irene and Sandy and the impact of the XLVIII Super Bowl on the local economy. While at the Ledger, she was awarded the New Jersey Press Association’s Robert P. Kelly Award for her rookie year as a reporter. Stacy earned her B.A. in journalism from Rowan University and her M.J. in multimedia from the the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Stacy lives in New Jersey.

Laura Entis is a writer at Fortune, where she covers entrepreneurs, startups and trends in small business. She previously worked as a writer and associate editor at Entrepreneur. Laura graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in English and from New York University with an M.A. in magazine journalism.

I cover personal finance, small business and lifestyle. My stories offer readers new insights and practical ways to save $, advance their careers or improve their lives.

dam Toren is an Award Winning Author, Serial Entrepreneur and Investor. He co-founded YoungEntrepreneur.com which is the Largest Social Networking Forum for Entrepreneurs in the World. Adam is co-author of the book: Small Business, Big Vision: "Lessons on How to Dominate Your Market from Self-Made Entrepreneurs Who Did it Right" and the award winning book: Kidpreneurs (Basic Principles of Entrepreneurship for Kids aged 6-12yrs old) Also, be sure to check out Blogtrepreneur.

Matthew Toren is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, investor and co-founder of YoungEntrepreneur.com. He is co-author, with his brother Adam, of Kidpreneurs and Small Business, BIG Vision: Lessons on How to Dominate Your Market from Self-Made Entrepreneurs Who Did it Right (Wiley). He's based in Vancouver, B.C.

Senior Business Writer covering real estate, retail, small business and general economic news.

Scott Goss covers small business and innovation. He has worked for newspapers in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania since 2000. A Smyrna native and current Milford-area resident, he enjoys long commutes, Delaware trivia and tax-free shopping.

Rich has been a tech writer since 1994, having reviewed all manner of computer hardware and software for print and online publications including PC Magazine, Computer Shopper, and Fortune Small Business.

Catherine Clifford is the senior entrepreneurship writer at CNBC. She was formerly a senior writer at Entrepreneur.com, the small business reporter at CNNMoney and an assistant in the New York bureau for CNN. Clifford attended Columbia University where she earned a bachelor's degree.