Walt Mossberg
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Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27, 1947) is an American technology journalist and moderator.
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Walt Mossberg | |
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Born | (1947-03-27) March 27, 1947 (age 77) Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Alma mater | Brandeis University Columbia University |
Occupation(s) | Columnist, journalist |
Website | www |
From 1991 through 2013, he was the principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He also co-founded AllThingsD, Recode and the D and Code Conferences. From 2015 to 2017, Mossberg was Executive Editor of The Verge and Editor-at-Large of Recode, web sites owned by Vox Media. Mossberg wrote a weekly column for both and also had a weekly podcast, Ctrl-Walt-Delete. Mossberg was also co-executive producer of the annual Code Conference. He retired in July 2017.
Dow Jones announced on September 19, 2013, that Mossberg would leave The Wall Street Journal as part of the breakup with AllThingsD by the end of the year.[1] AllThingsD was a technology conference and web site owned by Dow Jones but created and operated by Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Along with other reporters from AllThingsD, Mossberg and Swisher started a new media site called Recode in 2014, which was acquired by Vox Media in 2015.[2]
In April 2017, Mossberg announced his plans to retire.[3][4] He is on the board of The News Literacy Project.