Pizzi Joins NAB Science & Tech Department

The National Association of Broadcasters announced today the hiring of Skip Pizzi as director, digital strategies. Pizzi, who will join NAB on Dec. 20, will report to Lynn Claudy, SVP of science and technology.

Most recently, Pizzi was technology editor at Radio Ink magazine, and a media technology consultant for U.S. and international broadcasters, government agencies, educational institutions, foundations and manufacturers.

Pizzi has served in engineering and technology management roles in both the broadcasting and new media industries. He began his technical career at NPR, and later contributed to numerous, high profile digital media efforts during more than a decade of work at Microsoft, as well as representing the company in domestic and international technical standards development organizations.

Pizzi has been an active broadcast technology trade journalist, editor and author since the early 1980s. The author of two books (Digital Radio Basics, an early text on digital radio broadcasting, and more recently co-author of Audio Over IP), he has also contributed to the NAB Engineering Handbook and other technical books, and served as editor, editor-in-chief and contributing editor for several well known broadcast industry trade journals.

He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied electrical engineering, international economics and fine arts.