Editors

Ryan McDermott

Ryan McDermott is an Editor in the Government Publishing Group at FierceMarkets. He writes regularly for FierceGovernment. He's held just about every newsroom job possible and previously worked for Patch.com, Warren Communications NewsThe GazetteThe Brooklyn RailThe Onion, Popmatters.com and Vice Magazine. He strives to report in the tradition of David Halberstam, Gay Talese, Murray Kempton and I.F. Stone. Ryan holds a B.A. in journalism from Rowan University where he was the editor of the student newspaper and did graduate work in magazine journalism at New York University. Ryan lives in the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast D.C. You can reach him by email or follow @fiercegov


Zach Rausnitz

Zach Rausnitz is an Editor in the Government Publishing Group at FierceMarkets. He writes regularly for FierceHomelandSecurity, FierceGovernment and FierceMobileGovernment. He previously interned at the Washington bureau of BBC News, where he worked in the TV, radio and online divisions. While at Brown University, where he got a B.A. in English, he wrote for The College Hill Independent. He enjoys riding his bicycle and lives in Washington, D.C. You can reach him at zrausnitz@fiercemarkets.com.


David Perera

David Perera is executive editor of the FierceMarkets Government Group, which includes FierceGovernment, FierceGovernmentIT, FierceHomelandSecurity, and FierceMobileGovernment. He has reported on all things federal since January 2004 and is co-author of Inside Guide to the Federal IT Market, a book published in October 2012. Based in greater-metro Washington, D.C., Dave can be reached here and can be found on LinkedIn or here.


Molly Bernhart Walker

Molly Walker is the managing editor of FierceMarkets' Government and Enterprise IT groups. She writes regularly for FierceMobileGovernment, FierceGovernmentIT and FierceGovernment, and contributes to FierceContentManagement. Prior to joining FierceMarkets, she was managing editor of Employee Benefit Adviser, a B2B magazine serving the insurance industry, as well as an intern at USAToday.com and FoxNews.com. When she's not exploring the nexus of business and technology, she's usually trying out a new recipe, playing soccer, hunting down new music or cheering on her beloved Virginia Tech Hokies. She is based at the FierceMarkets main office in Washington, D.C., and can be reached at molly@fiercemarkets.com. Follow @FierceCIO, @FierceCM and @FierceGov on Twitter and find her on LinkedIn.