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Walter Mossberg 
Walt Mossberg (L) with Steve Jobs (R) at All Things Digital 5 in 2007Born March 27, 1947
Warwick, Rhode IslandNationality American Education Brandeis University Alma mater Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Occupation Columnist, Journalist Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27, 1947) is an American journalist who is the principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
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Early life
He is a native of Warwick, Rhode Island, graduated from Brandeis University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Career
Mossberg has been a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal since 1970. He is based in the Journal's Washington, D.C., office, where he spent 18 years covering national and international affairs before turning his attention to technology. His Personal Technology column has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He also edits the Digital Solution column each Wednesday (authored by his colleague, Katherine Boehret), and writes the Mossberg's Mailbox column on Thursdays. He appears weekly on the Fox Business Network, and in web video reports, and used to provide commentary in a segment on PC World's Digital Duo, a computer program airing on PBS stations.
In 1999, Mossberg became the only technology writer to receive the Loeb award for Commentary. In 2001, he won the World Technology Award for Media and Journalism and received an honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Rhode Island.[1] Mossberg is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers on information technology. In 2004, in a lengthy profile, Wired called him "The Kingmaker", saying "[f]ew reviewers have held so much power to shape an industry's successes and failures."[2] He is also reported to be the highest paid journalist at the Journal with "his annual compensation approaching a million dollars."[3]
In partnership with his fellow Journal columnist Kara Swisher, Mossberg created, produces and hosts the Journal's annual D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, CA, in which top technology leaders, such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, appear on stage without prepared remarks, or slides, and are interviewed by the two columnists.[4] Mossberg and Swisher also co-edit the All Things Digital web site, which includes his columns, her blog and other posts.
References
- ^ Walt Mossberg | About | AllThingsD
- ^ Deutschman, Alan (May, 2004). "The Kingmaker: Walt Mossberg makes or breaks products from his pundit perch at a little rag called The Wall Street Journal". Wired. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/mossberg.html?pg=1. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
- ^ Auletta, Ken (May, 2007). "Critical Mass: Everyone listens to Walter Mossberg.". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_auletta. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
- ^ "D: All Things Digital The Wall Street Journal Executive Conference". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Archived from the original on 2007-04-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20070429142557/http://d.wsj.com/index.html. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
External links
- All Things Digital
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Walter Mossberg on Charlie Rose
- Walter Mossberg at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about Walter Mossberg in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Walter Mossberg collected news and commentary at The Wall Street Journal
- Walter Mossberg at the Notable Names Database
Categories:- 1947 births
- Living people
- American columnists
- American technology writers
- American journalists
- Writers from Rhode Island
- Writers from New York
- Brandeis University alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- People from Warwick, Rhode Island
- The Wall Street Journal people
- Jewish American writers
- Gerald Loeb Award winners
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