Walter Mossberg

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Walt Mossberg (left) together with Steve Jobs at All Things Digital 5 2007

Walter S. "Walt" Mossberg (born March 27, 1947 in Warwick, Rhode Island ) is an American journalist . He was best known for his columns in the Wall Street Journal , in which he commented on technical products and trends. Mossberg is considered the most influential journalist in this field. He left the Wall Street Journal in late 2013 and has been running Recode since early 2014 . He retired in June 2017 .

Career

Walter Mossberg (2009)

Mossberg studied at Brandeis University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism . He has been writing for the Wall Street Journal since 1970. There he spent the first 18 years mainly in the areas of national and international politics before turning his attention to technologies.

Mossberg's oldest technology column is Personal Technology , which has been published every Thursday since 1991. He also writes for Mossberg Solution (every Wednesday, with his co-author Katherine Boehret) and Mossberg's Mailbox (every Thursday). In addition to his columns for the Wall Street Journal, he appears weekly on CNBC and also writes The Mossberg Report for SmartMoney Magazine . In all of its columns, Mossberg describes and evaluates new technical products and trends.

Mossberg interviews Bill Gates with Kara Swisher during the AllThingsD conference in 2006

Together with his colleague Kara Swisher , Mossberg has organized the All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, since 2003 . This is known for its top-class discussion forums. The New York Times named these conferences in 2018 the " gold standard for live journalism". In 2007, for example, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates met for the first time in a long time for a panel discussion with the two journalists.

Also in 2007, Mossberg and Swisher began building a larger technology website called AllThingsD in partnership with the Wall Street Journal. This cooperation expired at the end of 2013.

Since the rights to the name AllThingsD remained with the WSJ, Mossberg founded the website Recode together with Kara Swisher , to which the AllThingsD employees , including Lauren Goode and Peter Kafka , also switched. In 2015 Recode was bought by Vox Media . He then also worked from June 2015 until his retirement in June 2017 as Executive Editor at the technology portal The Verge , also a subsidiary of Vox Media. Together with its editor-in-chief Nilay Patel , he published the weekly podcast Ctrl-Walt-Delete there from September 2015 until his retirement in June 2017 .

In October 2017 it was announced that Mossberg was working on a book and had signed a corresponding contract. In this book, he wants to describe the rapid development of private use of technology and address the people who have shaped these changes.

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  1. ^ The Kingmaker. In: wired.com. May 1, 2004, accessed February 25, 2020 .
  2. ^ The New York Times Corporation, Kara Swisher to Contribute to Opinion (July 9, 2018) , accessed July 9, 2018
  3. Jump up ↑ Tech Columnist Walt Mossberg to Leave WSJ. Wall Street Journal on September 19, 2013, accessed March 2, 2014.
  4. ^ Sydney Ember: Vox Media Adds ReCode to Its Stable of Websites. In: New York Times. May 26, 2015, accessed February 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Walt Mossberg is retiring in June. In: The Verge . Retrieved September 27, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ Ctrl-Walt-Delete Archive. In: The Verge . Vox Media , accessed September 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Nilay Patel: "Walt Mossberg is writing a book" (October 16, 2017) , accessed October 16, 2017

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SURNAME Mossberg, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mossberg, Walter S .; Mossberg, Walt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Warwick (Rhode Island)