About Paula Bernier

Paula Bernier is Executive Editor for the IP Communications Group at TMC

Bernier, an 18-year communications industry reporting veteran, is a freelance blogger and also handles the day-to-day editorial operations of TMC’s Internet Telephony magazine, Next Generation Networks magazine and Unified Communications magazine in addition to writing for the online communities on TMCnet.

 Prior to joining TMC, Bernier led various editorial efforts at Virgo Publishing, primarily focusing on her role as Editor-in-Chief of xchange magazine and leading the editorial side of various custom publishing efforts like eBooks and webinars, for 11 years.

 Bernier also has served as a senior writer for Inter@ctive Week magazine, a publication that during her tenure was sold to Ziff Davis. There, she covered service provider-related issues, with a special focus on wireless.

 She got her start in telecom at Telephony magazine, where she spent nearly five years, leaving as the news director.

 Bernier also has been on the reporting staffs of various mainstream daily and weekly newspapers in Iowa, Minnesota and South Carolina.

 She has B.S. in journalism from the University of Iowa.

 Bernier lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., with her husband, daughter, cat, two dogs and Russian tortoise.