DAVID CARNOY
Executive Editor, Consumer Electronics and Wireless, CNET Networks – www.cnet.com

David Carnoy, Executive Editor of Consumer Electronics and Wireless, at CNET Networks Inc., oversees the reviews and buying advice coverage for the Electronics and Wireless channels for both CNET and ZDNet.  He also writes the bi-monthly column, Fully Equipped, in which he discusses the "electronics you lust for."  It is published on CNET.com, as well as in Computer Shopper magazine.

His categories, which include digital cameras and camcorders, handhelds, cell phones, home audio and video products, and MP3 players, receive nearly 2 million page views a week and his team produces on average a dozen new reviews and/or features a week.      

At CES 2003, Carnoy moderated a session on the latest wireless gadgets and at the 2002 TECHXNY - Technology Exchange Week New York, he participated on a panel entitled “Gadgets and gizmos for busy executives and their staffs.”  He is also on the 2004 CES Conference Advisory Board.

Carnoy has been interviewed by several reporters.  CNN Headline News credited him for his work in creating CNET's Cell Phone Radiation Chart, which has received millions of hits in the more than 2 years it has been available to readers.  Among other media outlets, he has been interviewed by Time Magazine, BBC Online, Smart Money magazine, and appeared on Businessweek TV.

Previously at CNET, Carnoy served as executive editor for the Wireless Channel.  During his time in that position, he was instrumental in launching the CNET/ZDNet's Wireless Channel and developed it into the leading site for cell phone reviews.

Before joining CNET in 2000, Carnoy served as editorial director of portable technologies, an area that encompassed everything from portable audio and video gear to wireless telecom products at etown.com.  Prior to that, Carnoy was a senior editor at Success magazine.  During his two and half years there, he edited and wrote features, and was the magazine’s technology editor, as well as its lifestyles editor.  While at Success he also served as the technology editor for Working At Home magazine and was a contributing editor at the Gen-X publication Swing. 

Before specializing in technology, Carnoy was a reporter with the National Sports Daily and later, a freelance writer.  He is the co-author of Fathers of a Certain Age (Faber&Faber, 1995), a book about “The Joys and Problems of Middle-aged Fatherhood” that he penned with his father.  Additionally, he has written for Fortune and Popular Science about tech products and issues.

He has a BA from Wesleyan University (1987) and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University (1992).