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There's a short blurb on New America about Mr. Koerner:

Brendan Koerner was previously a Senior Editor at U.S. News & World Report, where he wrote more than 100 feature articles including six cover stories, since 1996 on subjects ranging from higher education to urban renewal to religion to business and technology. His stories have included "A Lust for Profits," a cover-story, study of the Internet pornography industry, and "Can Hackers be Stopped," a special report on information security.

As a Markle Fellow at the New America Foundation, Mr. Koerner will use the lens of the digital underground to examine some of the most critical issues affecting the future of information technology and the new economy--including the commercialization of the Internet; the struggle over copyright and patent law and the preservation of the information commons; the ethics of free speech on the Internet; and the increasing concerns over cyber-security. In his writing, Mr. Koerner will seek to meld traditional reportage with well-informed commentary that will be solutions oriented. In particular, his work will seek to suggest workable compromises and creative policy alternatives that might allow the wired establishment and its hacker critics to develop a less adversarial relationship.

His e-mail address and picture are also available at the URL above.