Edith Updike is deputy editor of Long Island Press. Edith began her journalism career in Japan in the late 1980s, rising to managing editor of the English-language arts and entertainment monthly Tokyo Today. She subsequently picked up an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, then worked at New York Newsday before returning to Japan as a foreign correspondent for Business Week magazine. After a few years covering the auto industry, trade wars, and more, Edith returned to New York as an editor on Business Week’s "Enterprise," covering entrepreneurship and the 90s tech boom. In 1999, she left Business Week to conceive, launch and nurture the corporate newsletter Diversity Monitor. She joined the Long Island Press as news editor prior to the paper’s launch in January 2003. Edith has often been featured as a guest or panelist in public venues and broadcast media both in the U.S. and Japan, including National Public Radio’s Marketplace and CNN. In addition to her journalism, she has traveled extensively and spent a year in Thailand working at a refugee camp. She has performed her own poetry. She received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD.