Ellen Brooks

Ellen Brooks is the senior shopping editor at Tech Junctions. She owns the three shopping-content pillars: TV buying guides (which TV should I buy at this size, budget, and use case), brand lineup explainers (what does Samsung's 2026 lineup mean and how do I read the model numbers), and accessories (best mount, best soundbar, best HDMI cable). Ellen came to Tech Junctions from twelve years of consumer-shopping journalism - writing for general-interest and home-focused outlets about how regular buyers should think about big-box electronics. Her editorial position is anti-spec-sheet: she cares about which spec matters at each budget tier and which specs the manufacturer is upselling for no real-world benefit. The TVs in her testing rotation cover every major brand and three budget tiers, refreshed annually. Her affiliate disclosures are unusually explicit and she's published an annual "what I'd return" piece for three years running. She lives in the US Southeast.