Steven Titch, founder of Expert Editorial Inc., is recognized internationally as one of today’s top telecommunications journalists and analysts.

Titch joined The Heartland Institute in April 2004. He is currently Heartland’s senior fellow for IT and telecom policy and served for two years as managing editor of IT&T News, Heartland’s monthly publication for state legislators and policymakers on telecommunications and information technology issues.

Prior to launching Expert Editorial Inc. in 1999, Titch was director-editorial projects for Data Communications magazine, where he directed content development for supplemental publications and special projects prior to the publication’s sale to United News & Media and subsequent closure. In this role, Titch created and developed the content and program plan for media services at International Telecommunication Union’s Telecom 99 + Interactive 99 Exposition in Geneva, Switzerland, a project that included live television, a show daily, and a Web site.

Titch is best known as the former editorial director of Telephony magazine and its international spin-off, Global Telephony. Titch planned and executed Telephony’s mid-'90s turnaround and its 1996 redesign and relaunch. He also was founding editor of Global Telephony. While at Telephony, Titch authored several major investigative articles about the industry, including “Blind Faith” (September 1997) on the troubled commercial introduction of CDMA wireless technology worldwide. The article was a runner-up in its publication revenue group for a Jesse H. Neal Award for best business-to-business magazine article of the year.

Titch’s experience as a telecommunications industry journalist goes back to 1980, when he started his career as associate editor-communications at Electronic News. He was founding editor of Cellular Business (now Wireless Review), which in 1984 was the first business-to-business publication serving the nascent wireless industry, and Midwest Bureau Chief for Communications Week (now Internet Week).

Titch holds a dual bachelor's degree in journalism and English from Syracuse University. A distance runner, he completed the 2000 Chicago Marathon in 3:51:55.

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