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Arlyn Tobias Gajilan

Business and Technology Editor

Arlyn Tobias Gajilan is the business and technology editor for Newsweek.com.

She comes to NEWSWEEK from Condé Nast Portfolio where she edited the Web site's Executives and Careers section. Prior to that she was a senior editor at Forbes.com. She created that site's popular Leadership section, which focused on management and career trends. She's also written and edited for numerous publications, including Foreign Policy, Time and was a senior editor at Fortune Small Business. There, she launched and edited several of FSB's sections and wrote numerous cover packages, including the first national cover story on JetBlue and its founder, David Neeleman. In 2004, she also reported from Baghdad on Operation Adam Smith, the U.S. government's plan to boost Iraq's economy through small-business development.

Gajilan began her career at NEWSWEEK as a reporter-researcher at the magazine from 1997 to 1999. She worked in numerous departments and most notably spent six months in the former Atlanta bureau where she filed dispatches from inside a Y2K survivalists' encampment, scored an exclusive with America's first hand-transplant recipient and reported on the rise and resignation of Newt Gingrich.

Gajilan graduated from Hampshire College and has a master's degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she studied national security policy.

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