Keynote: Mark Whitaker, Editor, Newsweek Mark Whitaker is the editor of Newsweek. Whitaker first came to Newsweek in 1977, moving his way up through the ranks as a reporting intern, a stringer, full-time reporter, business editor, assisting managing editor, managing editor, and then editor in 1998. Whitaker helped expand Newsweek's technology coverage with the launch of a monthly "Focus on Technology" section, a weekly Cyberscope page, and a yearly newsstand magazine, Computers and the Family. Whitaker oversaw the magazine's coverage of the 9.11 attacks, which was honored with a prestigious National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2002.