Stephanie Mehta covers technology and telecommunications for Fortune. Since arriving at the magazine in April 2000, she has written major features on such high-profile companies as WorldCom, Cisco and AOL Time Warner. Recent television appearances include interviews on Nightline and The Charlie Rose Show. Before joining Fortune, Stephanie was an assistant news editor at The Wall Street Journal, reporting and editing technology stories. As a staff reporter at The Journal, she helped break news stories on some of the biggest mergers of the 1990s, including SBC Communications' $70 billion takeover of Ameritech.

Stephanie started her journalism career as a staff writer for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. She holds a bachelor's degree in English and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

Stephanie sits on the board of directors of Asian Professional Extension, a non-profit group that provides mentoring and scholarships to underprivileged Asian American teenagers. She also serves on the steering committee of A3, the Asian American employees group at Time Inc. A native of the Chicago area, Stephanie now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Nathan Scott, a financial analyst.

Stephanie is a New York AAJA board member.