Nate Cochrane is Editor In Chief across Haymarket's stable of IT B2B publications.Over 11 years as a reporter and editor for Fairfax’s Next IT section in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and previously at The West Australian he covered the security, hacking and trust beats.He famously applied game theory to “beat the banker” on the television game show, Deal or No Deal, walking off with the world record prize of $515,000. He was one of the first journalists to identify the peer-to-peer trend. His stories have featured on Myth Busters and in 2001 led to the awarding of an MIT Ig Nobel prize to IP Australia and John Keogh for the patenting of the wheel. Cochrane was Australia’s first online journalist.Before becoming a full-time journalist, Cochrane consulted on IS security issues.
Nate Cochrane is Editor In Chief across Haymarket's stable of IT B2B publications.
Over 11 years as a reporter and editor for Fairfax’s Next IT section in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and previously at The West Australian he covered the security, hacking and trust beats.
He famously applied game theory to “beat the banker” on the television game show, Deal or No Deal, walking off with the world record prize of $515,000. He was one of the first journalists to identify the peer-to-peer trend. His stories have featured on Myth Busters and in 2001 led to the awarding of an MIT Ig Nobel prize to IP Australia and John Keogh for the patenting of the wheel. Cochrane was Australia’s first online journalist.
Before becoming a full-time journalist, Cochrane consulted on IS security issues.