Brian Ballou

Brian Ballou is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (M.S., Journalism, 1998) and a career newspaper reporter who spent more than two decades in major metropolitan newsrooms before turning to technology and business journalism. He worked as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Newsday's Manhattan bureau, the Detroit Free Press, the Boston Herald, and the Boston Globe, where he covered breaking news from 2006 to 2013. Ballou was part of the Boston Globe staff that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. He later served as Director of Media Relations for Boston Public Schools and as a South Florida Sun Sentinel reporter before moving into public-sector communications, where he currently serves as Speechwriter & Communications Specialist with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office. Since September 2023, Ballou has been a contributing writer for Techstrong Group, where he covers technology and business topics for properties including Techstrong.ai and DigitalCxO, applying his investigative newsroom background to enterprise technology and corporate leadership coverage.