Craig Newell joined Ziff Davis Internet as Associate Editor in June 2003.Prior to that, he served as a freelance editor for Ziff Davis.Newell began his reporting at BetaNews, a site dedicated to news surrounding pre-release software.In 2001, he joined Ziff Davis' eWEEK as a freelance reporter covering America Online Inc. where he broke several important stories including unreleased details on America Online's software client. He has also served as an online community producer for CNN.com and worked on MSNBC's daytime news programming.