Mark Hall

On the Mark

Mark Everett Hall is a free-lance writer living in Oregon. He worked at Computerworld from 1999 to 2008, joining as West Coast Bureau Chief and held a number of positions at the newspaper before leaving last year.

Prior to Computerworld, Hall was the Editor in Chief of Performance Computing magazine. He has also served as Editor in Chief at MacWeek, LAN Technology, and SunTech Journal, where he was also founder and publisher. He has been a columnist for PC Week and InternetMagazine. He was also the Director of ZD Labs, then the largest independent computer products testing lab in the world.

He is a contributing writer to Encyclopedia Britannica. He is the co-author of Sunburst: The Ascent of Sun Microsystems. He has written hundreds of articles for a variety of publications, including Media Studies Journal, CNN.com, Southern Studies, The Christian Science Monitor, The North American Review and others.

Hall has been a keynote speaker and panelist at many different conferences, including Premier 100, Future of Presidential Libraries, Mobile Insights 2000, German Internet Kongress 2000, Macworld, Comdex, PC Expo, and others. He is a regular commentator for the general media, including New York Times, CBS Evening News, CNN, Public Radio's Marketplace, Los Angeles Times, ABC Radio, San Francisco Chronicle and many others.

Hall’s work has been recognized for achievement by numerous organizations. His story on the Hewlett-Pakcard/Compaq merger won a national award from the American Society of Business Press Editors for 2001 and in 2000 he was the co-recipient for best news story awarded by the Computer Press Association. And he has won awards from the Magazine Publishers Association, International Imaging Association, Sun Microsystems and other organizations. He’s included in Who’s Who In America.

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