Francis Pisani is the Bay Area based technology correspondent for international newspapers El País (Spain), Le Monde (France) and Reforma (Mexico). He covers IT development in the Silicon Valley as well as the rest of the US. He has covered Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for several European media companies between 1979 and 1996. Francis was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1992. He has published several books related to his activities as a journalist.