Maryfran Johnson Editor in Chief Computerworld Maryfran Johnson is the editor-in-chief for Computerworld, the newspaper for information technology (IT) Leaders, which has a national circulation of 250,000 business and technology professionals. She joined Computerworld in 1989, after working eight years as a reporter for daily newspapers in Florida, The Gainesville Sun, Washington State, The Tri-City Herald, and Ohio, The Cincinnati Enquirer. In her first position as a technology reporter at Computerworld, she covered a variety of beats from midrange systems and the Unix industry to client/server software. She was the founding editor of Computerworld's Client/Server Journal in 1993, and was promoted a year later to news editor. In February 1996, she was appointed executive editor, a position responsible for all newsroom operations and a staff of 65 people. In her role as a top editor with Computerworld, she has served as an expert commentator for a variety of radio, television and print news organizations. Johnson is also frequently featured as a prominent keynote speaker at numerous industry conferences. Johnson holds a master's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University, and two bachelor's degrees - in French Literature from the State University of New York at Albany, and in Journalism from the University of Florida. Contact Us Home