John Markoff

John Markoff ( born October 24, 1949 in Oakland, California) is an American journalist who has looked in his articles mainly with the topics of technology and the Internet. Markoff was known in the 1990s through his coverage of the hacker Kevin Mitnick in the New York Times.

Life

Markoff was born in Oakland, California, and grew up in Palo Alto. He joined the Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1971 and received his Master degree from the University of Oregon in 1976.

He worked as a freelance journalist for various publications, such as " The Nation ", " Mother Jones " and " Saturday Review ". In 1981 he became a member of the editorial board of the magazine InfoWorld. In 1984 he was editor of Byte Magazine, which he left in 1985 to write for the business section of the San Francisco Examiner. Here is his main topic was the editorial coverage of the Silicon Valley.

Since 1988, Markoff lives in New York and writes for the business section of the New York Times.

Publications

  • The High Cost of High Tech. (along with Lennie Siegel ) 1985, ISBN 0-06-039045- X.
  • Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier. (along with Katie Hafner ), 1991, ISBN 0-671-68322-5 -
  • Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America 's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw. (together with Tsutomu Shimomura ) 1995, ISBN 0-7868-6210-6.
  • What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. 2005, ISBN 0-670-03382-0.
  • Publicist
  • Newspaper journalist
  • Journalist (United States)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1949
  • Man
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