Mike Azzara

Contributing Editor, President/Content Marketing Partners, Grandpa

About

Mike Azzara is a New York-based technology journalist and the founder of Content Marketing Partners. Mike has followed AI development for decades and for several years co-wrote the “AI Insider” column at MediaPost.

Experience

After 30 years as a media “intrapreneur” for the tech industry, Mike launched his own content practice in 2007 and partnered with Stein IAS to launch that agency’s in-house content practice.

Mike then founded boutique agency Content Marketing Partners, working with multiple household-name consumer and B2B brands to empower their owned media channels with high-value, search-optimized blog and thought leadership content.

Earlier, Mike headed United Business Media’s TechWeb Network as SVP, Internet Business; was the founding publisher and editorial director of the weekly InternetWeek; and the founding editor-in-chief of Open Systems Today. He was also editor and, later, publisher of CommunicationsWeek. In the distant past he spent four years as the night-side crime reporter for a New York City daily newspaper.

Education

Mike has a Baccalaureate degree in communications/journalism from the City University of New York.