About
A Short Bio
Mark Halper is a UK-based freelance journalist who writes about everything from media moguls to subatomic particles. He currently focuses on the energy industry including nuclear, renewables and fossil fuels. His "go to" coverage of nuclear has led the reporting on promising alternative reactor technologies like fusion, thorium, molten salt and others. In his recent stints as a contributing editor at CBS SmartPlanet and as blogger-in-residence for London charity The Alvin Weinberg Foundation, he routinely broke stories including the U.S. Department of Energy's high-temperature nuclear collaborations with China. He contributes to Fortune and The Guardian and has written extensively for TIME Magazine. Mark keeps a keen eye on manufacturing innovations and on the endless battle between telecom, media and technology companies. He has written about antimatter, cloning, pistachios, fish, landmines, surfing, medicine, patents, venture capital, you name it - always with a flair for spotting maverick individuals and disruptive forces. He also written for the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Independent on Sunday, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and many others, filing from London, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Helsinki, Berlin, Cairo, Cannes and elsewhere. He is the author of Emerging Nuclear Innovations, a 64-page post-Fukushima report. Mark runs lively debates and interviews at industry conferences. An American living in England, Mark is writing a book about the wonderful paradoxes of Britain. He is available for stories, conferences and speaking.
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A Bit More
Early in his career Mark Halper covered cops and robbers in New York City, when he occasionally struggled to tell the two apart. It was a particularly scandal-ridden time in NY in the late 1980s: rouge policemen sold confiscated drugs; imprisoned mob bosses moved to Connecticut for a fair trial; a city leader fatally plunged a kitchen knife into his own chest under the strain of racketeering allegations. This all taught the young reporter a valuable journalism lesson: whether it’s crime, politics, business, life, society or the world at large, lines blur and new forces for better or worse come along to rattle the status quo.
It is with that eye that Halper has subsequently tracked everything from media moguls to arguably more powerful subatomic particles. Mark has always focused on people with genuinely disruptive ideas and on the collision of dominant forces. His articles pivot on these clashes and upheavals. He was among the first to spot the intrusion of telecom, media, and technology companies onto each other’s turf as they battle for control of consumer eyeballs and digital business. From the late 1990s through much of the last decade, his stories for TIME, Fortune, the Financial Times, the Independent on Sunday, the New York Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and others* predicted the Internet’s schizophrenic effect on media and on the traditional phone business and the mobile industry. As the former freelance executive editor of Manufacturing Executive trade magazine - which he helped to launch in 2008 - Halper’s stories identified the innovative processes and technologies that are helping manufacturers spin out of recession.
Now, as sustainable energy challenges fossil fuels, Mark’s stories for CBS, The Guardian, TIME and many others note the same potential value chain shake up - strong incumbents face threats from upstarts and new technology, amid an uncertain regulatory environment.
Along the way Mark has wandered onto subjects as diverse as pistachios, surfing, cricket, landmines, cloning, water, lasers, traffic, medicine, health – you name it. His previously annual contributions to TIME’s write-ups of World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers set him in touch with some of the top scientists tackling the world’s pressing problems.
Mark has interviewed or questioned face-to-face a long list of movers and shakers. To drop a few names: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Robert Redford, Miss Universe, Rupert Murdoch, Time Warner chairman Richard Parsons, CBS CEO Lesley Moonves, Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Black Eyed Peas front man Will I. Am, Cisco CEO John Chambers, Blackberry boss Mike Lazaridis, Skype inventor Niklas Zennstrom, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, ESPN and ABC sports president George Bodenheimer, Big Brother promulgator Peter Bazalgette, a bevy of CEOs from companies including Nokia, Canon, Siemens, Motorola, Vodafone, Orange, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, scores of leading nuclear scientists, and many others.
Whether it’s Miss Universe or Rupert Murdoch, positrons or pistachios, lasers or landmines, surfing waves or surfing the web, mobiles or medicine, whisky or water, cricket or cars, Mark is equally at ease interviewing and writing incisive, engaging accounts. Mark is a history graduate of Cornell University. He is available for stories and conferences, and for speaking about industry/technology changes, life, liberty, the pursuit of a good story, and the paradoxes of Britain.
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*Mark’s stories have appeared in scores of publications. Some of them-
GENERAL INTEREST:
TIME Magazine (click here)
CBS SmartPlanet (click here)
The Weinberg Foundation (click here)
The Guardian (click here)
Fortune (click here)
The Independent on Sunday (click here)
Financial Times
The New York Times (click here)
San Jose Mercury News
Forbes
Business Week
The Business
Business 2.0
Diamond Weekly (Japan)
TRADES and SPECIALTY:
Variety (click here)
The Hollywood Reporter (click here)
Wired
Fast Company
Renewable Energy Focus
Physicsworld
Lux Magazine
Kachan Letter
Ecomagination (click here)
Manufacturing Executive
Mobile Media
Computerworld
Datamation
ComputerLetter
PC Week
Mark Halper is a UK-based freelance journalist who writes about everything from media moguls to subatomic particles. He currently focuses on the energy industry including nuclear, renewables and fossil fuels. His "go to" coverage of nuclear has led the reporting on promising alternative reactor technologies like fusion, thorium, molten salt and others. In his recent stints as a contributing editor at CBS SmartPlanet and as blogger-in-residence for London charity The Alvin Weinberg Foundation, he routinely broke stories including the U.S. Department of Energy's high-temperature nuclear collaborations with China. He contributes to Fortune and The Guardian and has written extensively for TIME Magazine. Mark keeps a keen eye on manufacturing innovations and on the endless battle between telecom, media and technology companies. He has written about antimatter, cloning, pistachios, fish, landmines, surfing, medicine, patents, venture capital, you name it - always with a flair for spotting maverick individuals and disruptive forces. He also written for the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Independent on Sunday, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and many others, filing from London, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Helsinki, Berlin, Cairo, Cannes and elsewhere. He is the author of Emerging Nuclear Innovations, a 64-page post-Fukushima report. Mark runs lively debates and interviews at industry conferences. An American living in England, Mark is writing a book about the wonderful paradoxes of Britain. He is available for stories, conferences and speaking.
* * *
A Bit More
Early in his career Mark Halper covered cops and robbers in New York City, when he occasionally struggled to tell the two apart. It was a particularly scandal-ridden time in NY in the late 1980s: rouge policemen sold confiscated drugs; imprisoned mob bosses moved to Connecticut for a fair trial; a city leader fatally plunged a kitchen knife into his own chest under the strain of racketeering allegations. This all taught the young reporter a valuable journalism lesson: whether it’s crime, politics, business, life, society or the world at large, lines blur and new forces for better or worse come along to rattle the status quo.
It is with that eye that Halper has subsequently tracked everything from media moguls to arguably more powerful subatomic particles. Mark has always focused on people with genuinely disruptive ideas and on the collision of dominant forces. His articles pivot on these clashes and upheavals. He was among the first to spot the intrusion of telecom, media, and technology companies onto each other’s turf as they battle for control of consumer eyeballs and digital business. From the late 1990s through much of the last decade, his stories for TIME, Fortune, the Financial Times, the Independent on Sunday, the New York Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and others* predicted the Internet’s schizophrenic effect on media and on the traditional phone business and the mobile industry. As the former freelance executive editor of Manufacturing Executive trade magazine - which he helped to launch in 2008 - Halper’s stories identified the innovative processes and technologies that are helping manufacturers spin out of recession.
Now, as sustainable energy challenges fossil fuels, Mark’s stories for CBS, The Guardian, TIME and many others note the same potential value chain shake up - strong incumbents face threats from upstarts and new technology, amid an uncertain regulatory environment.
Along the way Mark has wandered onto subjects as diverse as pistachios, surfing, cricket, landmines, cloning, water, lasers, traffic, medicine, health – you name it. His previously annual contributions to TIME’s write-ups of World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers set him in touch with some of the top scientists tackling the world’s pressing problems.
Mark has interviewed or questioned face-to-face a long list of movers and shakers. To drop a few names: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Robert Redford, Miss Universe, Rupert Murdoch, Time Warner chairman Richard Parsons, CBS CEO Lesley Moonves, Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Black Eyed Peas front man Will I. Am, Cisco CEO John Chambers, Blackberry boss Mike Lazaridis, Skype inventor Niklas Zennstrom, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, ESPN and ABC sports president George Bodenheimer, Big Brother promulgator Peter Bazalgette, a bevy of CEOs from companies including Nokia, Canon, Siemens, Motorola, Vodafone, Orange, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, scores of leading nuclear scientists, and many others.
Whether it’s Miss Universe or Rupert Murdoch, positrons or pistachios, lasers or landmines, surfing waves or surfing the web, mobiles or medicine, whisky or water, cricket or cars, Mark is equally at ease interviewing and writing incisive, engaging accounts. Mark is a history graduate of Cornell University. He is available for stories and conferences, and for speaking about industry/technology changes, life, liberty, the pursuit of a good story, and the paradoxes of Britain.
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*Mark’s stories have appeared in scores of publications. Some of them-
GENERAL INTEREST:
TIME Magazine (click here)
CBS SmartPlanet (click here)
The Weinberg Foundation (click here)
The Guardian (click here)
Fortune (click here)
The Independent on Sunday (click here)
Financial Times
The New York Times (click here)
San Jose Mercury News
Forbes
Business Week
The Business
Business 2.0
Diamond Weekly (Japan)
TRADES and SPECIALTY:
Variety (click here)
The Hollywood Reporter (click here)
Wired
Fast Company
Renewable Energy Focus
Physicsworld
Lux Magazine
Kachan Letter
Ecomagination (click here)
Manufacturing Executive
Mobile Media
Computerworld
Datamation
ComputerLetter
PC Week