Joab Jackson is Editor-in-Chief for The New Stack, assuring that the TNS website gets a fresh batch of cloud native news, tutorials and perspectives each day. He has logged over 25 years in infrastructure IT journalism, including stints at IDG, and Government Computer News. He started in 1995 as the first Internet columnist for a U.S. newspaper (the Baltimore City Paper) and later worked for a U.S. Defense Department contractor to help explain the virtues of commercializing technology originally developed for the U.S. missile defense system. Jackson has also worked on a series of "underground" news publications, including Baltimore's original hippie newspaper Harry, as well as Spock Science Monitor, Burning Man's longest continuously-running independent newspaper.