Bio
Steve has more than 40 years of journalism and publishing experience, most of the last 35 of which were spent covering technology. He has written about networking, telecommunications, and security in corporate computing, government and small business environments. Steve started off working for daily newspapers in the 1970s, reporting on local politics in his native state of New Jersey. By the 1980s, Zurier branched out, working for business magazines and in the computer trade press as Features Editor for Government Computer News and InternetWeek. He also focused on home technology and consumer electronics for Builder Magazine for more than five years. Zurier became a full-time freelancer in 2012 and covered IT security for the top brands in the tech press, including, CyberRisk Alliance and Informa/Tech Target. For the past six years, he’s been writing one news story and editing an op-ed column every day for SC Media. In his spare time, Steve plays the upright bass in jazz combos and klezmer bands throughout the Baltimore/DC region. Zurier resides in Columbia, Md.