Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher is an American technology journalist and co-founder of Recode. Previously she wrote for The Wall Street Journal, serving as co-executive editor of All Things Digital.
Early life
Swisher graduated from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a B.S. degree in 1984. She wrote for The Hoya, Georgetown's school newspaper.[1] In 1985, she earned an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.[2]
Career
Swisher worked at an alternative newspaper in Washington, D.C. and The Washington Post, where she started as an intern and was later hired full-time.
Wall Street Journal
Swisher joined The Wall Street Journal in 2003 and launched the AllThingsD conference and later expanded it into a website.[2]
Swisher created and wrote Boom Town, a column which appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section and online. She subsequently appeared on founded and served as the co-executive editor with Walt Mossberg.
Swisher wrote on technology for the paper. During that period, she was cited as the most influential reporter covering the Internet by the Industry Standard magazine.[3]
In partnership with her fellow Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, Swisher created, produced, and hosted the Journal's annual D: All Things Digital conference, in which top technology leaders, such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs appear on stage with or without prepared remarks, or slides, and are interviewed by the two columnists.
Books
She is the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, published by Times Business Print Books in July 1998. The sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future, was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Print Books.
Recode
On January 1, 2014, Swisher and Mossberg struck out on their own with the Recode site, based in San Francisco, California.[4]
Other projects and accolades
Swisher has also served as a judge[5] for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's NYC BigApps competition in NYC.
Newsweek has said "many regard [Swisher] as Silicon Valley's premier journalist."[6] In a profile headlined "Kara Swisher is Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work?", New York Magazine said Swisher is one of the "major power brokers of tech reporting" whose "combination of access and toughness has made [her] a preeminent arbiter of status in a Silicon Valley."[7]
In 2016, Swisher announced she planned to run for mayor of San Francisco in 2023.[8]
Personal life
Swisher has two sons.[9]
References
- ↑ Dodderidge, Lili (October 5, 2010). "Top Internet Journalists Talk News". The Hoya. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
- 1 2 Williams, Andrea (April 24, 2013). "SO WHAT DO YOU DO, KARA SWISHER, CO-EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF ALLTHINGSD.COM?". Mediabistro. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
- ↑ O'Brien, Chris (October 19, 2003), "OPINION: Book Explores What Went Wrong in AOL Time Warner Merger", San Jose Mercury News, retrieved January 27, 2010
- ↑ Wasserman, Todd (January 1, 2014). "Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher Launch Tech News Site 'Re/code'". Mashable. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ↑ "MAYOR BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF NYC BIGAPPS 2.0 COMPETITION". NYC.gov. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ↑ Nazaryan, Alexander (12 July 2016). "Jeff Bezos wants to rule the world". Newsweek. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ↑ Wallace, Benjamin (July 15, 2015). "Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work?". New York Magazine. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ↑ Green, Emily (April 14, 2016). "Tech journalist Kara Swisher plans to run for San Francisco Mayor". SFGate. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
- ↑ Casserly, Meghan (March 12, 2012). "What Kara Swisher (Really) Thinks About Boys, Girls And Getting More Women Into Tech". Forbes. Retrieved 23 October 2016.