Carolyn Pritchard has worked as an editor and reporter in online media for more than 12 years, most recently as managing editor of the San Francisco-based technology blog GigaOM. Before joining GigaOM, she spent nearly six years at MarketWatch, where she helped to launch and eventually run its West Coast breaking news desk. Her 2007 feature story “Climate: The Food Chain’s Weakest Link” was part of an investor’s guide to global warming that received the Best in Business Award from The Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Her work has also appeared in numerous Canadian media outlets, including Business News Network and The Financial Post.

She spent the fall 2010 semester working at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business as a writing coach in its Mastery in Communication Initiative.

Pritchard holds a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley, which she attended as a Bloomberg Business Scholar. Born and raised in Vancouver, she graduated from UBC in 1994, with a bachelor’s in Women’s Studies. She was licensed to trade securities in Canada in 1997.