Kara Swisher

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Kara Swisher (2019)

Kara Swisher (* 1963 ) is an American journalist and co-founder and managing editor ( executive editor ) of the technology blogs Recode , a subsidiary of Vox Media . From August 2018 she will also be an opinion journalist for The New York Times . She previously worked as an editor at the Wall Street Journal , where she later served as a co-founder and one of the two editors-in-chief of All Things Digital . She is considered one of the most influential journalists in the technology and internet industries.

Career

Swisher interviews Bill Gates with Walt Mossberg during the AllThingsD 2006 conference

Swisher studied at Georgetown University in Washington DC and at Columbia University in New York City, where she graduated with a Master of Science degree in 1985 . She began her career with an internship at the Washington Post , where she got her first permanent position. In 2003 she moved to the Wall Street Journal and met Walter Mossberg . Together with him, she founded the technology conference All Things Digital in cooperation with the Wall Street Journal , which was expanded into a technology website. The New York Times called these conferences the " gold standard for live journalism". During this conference in 2007 , Bill Gates and Steve Jobs gave their only joint interview. After the cooperation with the Wall Street Journal expired at the end of 2013 and the naming rights were transferred to the cooperation partner, Swisher founded the technology blog Recode together with Mossberg and the change of numerous employees, including Lauren Goode and Peter Kafka , which also organizes a technology conference with the Code Conference . Recode was bought by Vox Media at the end of May 2015 .

At Recode , Swisher publishes interviews at least once a week in her podcast Recode Decode , and she also acts as the presenter of the podcast Too Embarrassed to Ask , together with Lauren Goode until April 2018 .

On 9 July 2018 gave The New York Times Company announced that Kara Swisher from August 2018 opinion contributions for The New York Times will write.

Works

  • aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web . New York: Random House International, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8129-3191-4
  • Kara Swisher; Lisa Dickey There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future . New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4000-4964-6

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  2. ↑ a b c The New York Times Corporation, "Kara Swisher to Contribute to Opinion" (July 9, 2018) , accessed July 9, 2018
  3. ↑ Alexander Nazaryan: "Jeff Bezos wants to rule the world" (July 12, 2016)
  4. ^ Benjamin Wallace: "Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? "(July 15, 2015)
  5. ↑ Andrea Williams: "So what do you do, Kara Swisher, co-executive editor of allthingsd.com?" (April 24, 2013)
  6. ↑ Tech Columnist Walt Mossberg to Leave WSJ Wall Street Journal on September 19, 2013, accessed March 2, 2014
  7. ↑ Recode: Who We Are. ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 2, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / recode.net
  8. ^ Announcement by Lauren Goode (March 23, 2018) , accessed March 23, 2018

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