Elyse Betters Picaro
Senior Contributing Editor
Elyse Betters Picaro is a senior contributing editor and former managing editor at ZDNET. Most recently, she served as editor-in-chief of Pocket-lint and operations manager for Valnet's consumer tech brands, overseeing Pocket-lint, XDA, and Android Police. Her previous roles include editor at 9to5Mac and 9to5Google, beat reporter for regional newspapers in Northeast America such as The Press-Republican, and contributor to global outlets like the BBC. Elyse holds a Master of Fine Arts in Publishing from The New School in Manhattan and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.