Andrew Leonard

Andrew Leonard (born 1962) is an American journalist who writes feature articles for San Francisco and contributes to Medium. From 1995 to 2014 he wrote for Salon.com.^[1] He has also written for Wired.^[2]

Andrew Leonard
Born	1962 (age 62–63)
Occupation	Journalist
Relatives	John Leonard (father)

Career

Leonard is credited with coining the term "open-source journalism".^[3] He is the author of Bots: The Origin of New Species, which The New York Times called a "playful social history of the internet".^[4] According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, also writing in the Times, the book is "deceptively profound".^[2] Bots was one of the first few books published by Wired's nonfiction publishing venture HardWired, launched in 1996.^[5]

For six years^[6] as a financial analyst for Salon.com,^[7] Leonard wrote a blog, How the World Works, covering topics such as speculation in the car market,^[8] the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act,^[9] and immigration reform.^[10]

Currently he is the writer of the popular newsletter titled, "The Cleaver and the Butterfly".^[11]

Leonard is the son of the American literary, television, film, and cultural critic John Leonard.^[12]

Selected works

• Leonard, Andrew (1998). Bots: The Origin of New Species. Penguin Group. ISBN 978-0-14-027566-7.