Walt Mossberg

Walter P. " Walt " Mossberg ( born March 27, 1947 in Warwick, Rhode Iceland ) is an American journalist. He was known for his columns in the Wall Street Journal, in which he commented on technical products and trends. Mossberg is considered to be the most influential journalist in this field. In 2014 he left the Wall Street Journal and operates since the page Re / code.

Career

Mossberg studied at Brandeis University and at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has been writing since 1970 for the Wall Street Journal. There he took care of the first 18 years was due mainly to the areas of national and international politics, before his attention turned to technology.

Moss Berg's oldest technology is Personal Technology column, which appears every Thursday since 1991. He also writes the posts for Mossberg Solution ( every Wednesday, along 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 in addition writes The Mossberg Report for the Smart Money Magazine. In all columns describes and evaluates Mossberg new technology products and trends.

Together with his colleague Kara Swisher organized Mossberg since 2003, the conference D: All Things Digital in Carlsbad, California. This is known for its high-caliber discussion forums. In 2007, for example, met for the first time in a long time Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to a panel discussion with the two journalists.

Also in 2007, began Mossberg and Swisher to build a more comprehensive technology website called AllThingsD, which cooperated with the Wall Street Journal. The end of 2013, this cooperation was running from. Since the rights to the name AllThingsD remained with the WSJ, the former AllThingsD employees operate since the website re / code.

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