Eric Ulken spent four years at the Los Angeles Times, most recently as editor for interactive technology. In this role he guided the paper's development of new ways of collecting, organizing and presenting information through the use of database, mapping and visualization tools. Among the projects he led was the creation of the Homicide Map, an online effort to illustrate demographic and geographic trends in homicides in Los Angeles County. He was previously managing editor for news at the Times' website, latimes.com.

Eric left the Times in November 2008 to spend a year studying effects of new technology on the practice of journalism around the world. In summer 2009 he was an Arthur F. Burns fellow at Spiegel International, the English-language online edition of Germany's leading news magazine. This year he spent a semester as the Canwest Global visiting professor at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.

Eric holds a bachelor's of journalism in broadcast news from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master's degree in communication management from the University of Southern California. He is originally from New Orleans.