• Writing
    • NokiaI started working as the lead writer and editor at Nokia Software in October 2020. In January 2021, this business group was folded into Cloud and Network Services. In July 2022, I moved over to the Strategy & Technology function and specifically to Bell Labs. As the primary storyteller for all these organizations, my goal has been to shape the industry narrative and frame thinking around technology trends and approaches – while also providing insight into the products and people behind it all. My personal mission is to try to understand technology better and make it more accessible to the masses.
    • Associated PressI started working as a correspondent for the Associated Press in Jerusalem in September 2005. I’ve since written several hundred stories that have appeared in newspapers and websites around the world. These are a selection of some of the most notable. The AP is the world’s oldest and largest newsgathering organization, providing content to more than 15,000 news outlets with a daily reach of 1 billion people around the world. Its multimedia services are distributed by satellite and the Internet to more than 120 nations. Featured Stories
    • Ottawa CitizenI worked as a staff reporter at the Ottawa Citizen from Sept. 2004 – Sept. 2005. During that time I covered hundreds of stories that appeared in all sections of the paper: World, Canada, City, Arts, Sports, Business, Tech Weekly and The Observer, our weekend supplement. The Citizen is part of CanWest, the largest chain of newspapers in Canada. Several of these stories have also appeared in the following papers: National Post, Montreal Gazette, Windsor Star, Regina Leader-Post, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province and Victoria Times-Colonist. selected stories
    • Graduate WorkAt the Columbia School of Journalism, I wrote numerous stories on a variety of subjects. I was assigned the south Bronx as my beat for the core fall reporting and writing course (earning honors in this course), covering police, courts, community, business, race, religion and education. In the spring, I focused on sports writing and also dabbled in reviews, profiles, editorials, analysis, opinion and first-person writing under the tutelage of Prof. Judith Crist in her “Personal and Professional Style” course. I was awarding with honors in this course as well. The most comprehensive piece of work I did during the year was the Master’s Project. Under the guidance of Prof. Sylvia Nasar I researched, reported and wrote about the Bronx Zoo and its international conservation efforts. The result is “The Evolution of Zoos – A Century of Conservation,” a 6,500-word study of the changing roles of zoos at the beginning of the 21st Century. Selected Projects
    • FreelanceIn recent years, I’ve taken on a number of freelance projects that have been published in outlets such as The New York Times Magazine, The New York Daily News, The Forward, Tablet, Haaretz, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, Guilt and Pleasure, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Magazine and The Seventh Eye. Since leaving AP in October 2020, I’ve also started writing analysis and commentary columns for various publications. Back in 1998, I started as an intern, assignment desk editor, associate producer, field producer and segment producer at NBC. My favorite role, though, was as a freelance correspondent for msnbc.com, where I regularly wrote features and human-interest stories from the Middle East, and where I kicked off my journalistic writing career. Selected Stories
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    • Nokia Bell LabsA bit of tech is a Nokia Bell Labs Podcast that celebrates the centennial of the legendary research institute. Host Aron Heller takes you on a journey through the past, present and future of Nokia Bell Labs. Bit by bit, he explores how Nokia Bell Labs has shaped the world of technology and revolutionized our lives. Each episode focuses on a different aspect of this legacy with a different guest and delves into how today’s innovators are defining the world of tomorrow. Aron Heller is also the roving reporter at the annual Brooklyn 6G Summit, where he recaps all the highlights at one of the most distinguished gatherings of the communications industry.
    • Defense Matters PodcastDefense Matters is a podcast about all matters of defense – and why they matter. Join host Aron Heller as he takes you on a journey into the world of security, military affairs, technology and everything in between. Each episode, we catch up on the latest developments and focus on a different aspect of the current climate with a featured guest. In addition to the challenges of today, we also take a glimpse into tomorrow with our Gamechanger corner in which we look at the technologies that will shape the future battlefield. “Defense Matters” is an Israel Defense production, in association with IAI.
    • AP TV + RadioIn addition to my writing and editing responsibilities, I was also a frequent on-camera contributor for breaking news and commentary on my feature articles. I delivered many live reports for AP’s online video network and for various affiliated TV channels around the world.
    • SportsAmid all the wars and politics, I have managed to cultivate myself a “mini-beat” as the Jerusalem bureau’s sports reporter. Here is a selection of some of the stories and features I have written about sports in Israel and while covering the World Cup in Brazil in 2014. SELECTED STORIES

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This Nokia Bell Labs researcher says today’s fiber optics can also sense the world

Our globe is hyper-connected by an elaborate network of high-capacity fiber optic cables. These strands of fiber, each about the dimension of a human hair, make up the backbone of

Netanyahu made this mess – and only Netanyahu can fix it

The “old Bibi” would never have allowed the country to spiral into the unprecedented crisis it now faces. For Israel’s sake, let’s hope some of him still remains. Op-ed published

75 years since the Nokia Bell Labs transistor changed the world

As with most revolutionary inventions, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain weren’t seeking to rewrite history. The pair of American physicists were merely aiming to improve telephone callsy developing a smaller

Brooklyn 6G Summit offers glimpse of hyper-connected future

Over two autumn days, in a quiet New York University campus, Nokia took a glimpse into the future – highlighting the key technologies that will define the next era of

How a Nokia Bell Labs technology is revolutionizing medical diagnostics

For over a hundred years, doctors have been examining our middle ear essentially the same way. They’ve seated us down, inserted an otoscope or a similarly cold metallic device into

A network like no other: How Nokia’s Moon network differs from any on Earth

Establishing and operating a cellular network in outer space is no simple matter. It requires taking already complicated technologies and adjusting them to otherworldly conditions.

That’s the enormous undertaking of

How Nokia Bell Labs found its place in space

Nokia Bell Labs is boldly going where no one has gone before, building the first-ever LTE/4G network on the Moon. Working with NASA, Nokia aims to demonstrate how commercially

What exactly is a “real” right-wing Israeli government?

The Bennett government collapsed because of baseless fearmongering, a tribal devotion to Likud and a cult of personality surrounding its leader on trial for corruption. Op-ed published in The Times

King of the Negev: The forgotten savior of southern Israel

How an awkward German refugee helped liberate southern Israel in the 1948 war of independence. Published in Tablet Magazine.

It was a crucial turning point in Israel’s fight for

Israel’s sad post-terrorism ritual strikes again

The country’s current reality doesn’t merit the panicked reaction to a recent wave of attacks. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel

Anytime Israel endures a spate of terrorist attacks

Israel’s entrepreneur-in-chief looking for big Ukraine ‘exit’

Naftali Bennett is an entrepreneur, a product of Israel’s vaunted high-tech startup nation. It’s a culture where high-risk and high-reward ventures are encouraged and where only the most daring score

Data is the new oil, in the telecom industry as well

A version of this story was published in Telecom Drive.

Like the prospectors of old who dug deep into the ocean floor in search of oil and natural gas,

Who is the outlier, Trump or Biden? The answer means much to the world

With the world trending authoritarian, will Trump turn out to be the first of his kind while the moderate Biden in fact be the last of his? Op-ed published in

As he turns 100, Mickey Heller still returns to World War II

Published in The Canadian Jewish News on Remembrance Day 2021

For most of his life, my grandfather, Mickey Heller, tried to put the memories of the Second World War behind

Guy Shemesh: Chair of Nokia’s Inclusion and Diversity Steering Committee

It was about three years ago that Guy Shemesh gazed around his office before a hiring drive and was struck by an unsettling realization: nearly all his Nokia colleagues looked

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