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I've been a business journalist for 40 years! Yikes! I honed in on tech for the last three decades. Most recently I have pivoted towards learning and writing about climate tech and climate action. After a long career at Fortune and a hiatus writing a book about Facebook, in 2011 I founded New York-based conference and media company Techonomy Media. We organized events and created text and video content, all of it devoted to explaining and understanding the intersection of technology and progress. We aimed to be a community and nexus where business leaders intersected with tech innovators, and where leaders learned how to be better technologists for an age when every company is a tech company. We typically organized two annual invite-only Techonomy Conferences. In 2020 we moved our events online, and in 2022 resumed physical events, with Techonomy Climate and Techonomy 2022 in Sonoma. Climate action and climate journalism and convening has become a central focus of my work. In 2010 Simon & Schuster published my book The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, and I continue closely to track Facebook and the global Internet industry, and threats that are posed to it by recklessly managed Facebook and other giants. The book is published in 32 languages, including Vietnamese and Catalan. At Fortune, where I worked for 25 years, I was Senior Editor for Internet & Technology and for six years wrote a weekly column called Fast Forward (https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fastforward/index.html). I created and hosted Fortune's Brainstorm conference, beginning in 2001. I'm a believer in the power of technology as a critical tool to change the world for the better. In addition to writing and producing video for www.techonomy.com, I have written for Forbes, Vanity Fair, Time, and The Information. I also speak and moderate, focused on technology's intersection with the economy, the Internet, the climate crisis, Facebook, social media, and how all those things connect.Specialties: technology, business, Internet, climate tech, climate action, Facebook, international development, technology and development, digital divide, technology journalism, global issues, technology industry competition, innovation, competitiveness, technology competition.
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Senior EditorThe Climate CapitalistNew York, Ny, Us
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Senior EditorThe Climate Capitalist Sep 2023 - PresentCC aims to engage with businesspeople, investors, and policymakers to underscore the opportunities and challenges for business as we urgently remake society around a clean energy economy and to accelerate progress. I help produce and write their newsletter. Subscribe at https://theclimatecapitalist.com/ -
Freelance Journalist And AuthorSelf-Employed Jan 2023 - PresentI'm writing about climate and tech here on LinkedIn and also for The Information, The Climate Capitalist, and others. Also working hard on shaping up a book about the vast coming climate economy.
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Host, Steel StoriesUnited States Steel Corporation Feb 2023 - PresentPittsburgh, Pa, UsSteel Stories (https://steelstoriespodcast.com/) is a podcast series about the changing shape of the steel industy as the climate crisis and sustainability requirements shift thinking and inspire change. I host the series. Guests range from leaders of steel industry organizations to experts in manufacturing and even AI in the steel industry. -
AuthorThe Facebook Effect: The Inside Story Of The Company That Is Connecting The World Jun 2010 - PresentSimon & Schuster published The Facebook Effect in North America and it has been published in 32 foreign editions, including Catalan, Croatian, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. It was the first real reported history of Facebook. I obtained extensive cooperation from Zuckerberg and the company, making it as much as possible an authoritative account of the company's rise and a biography of its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I frequently speak publicly and in the press about Facebook and social media.
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Contributing EditorBloomberg Television Oct 2013 - Jul 2023Commentary and analysis of developments in the tech industry and of how technology is transforming business and society.
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Founder And Editor-In-ChiefTechonomy Media May 2018 - Dec 2022New York, New York, UsTechonomy created conversations and content about the centrality of tech-based transformation to the world and to business. It was an aspirational series of events, articles, and videos. Techonomy's ethos was that business must unequivocally proceed with purpose towards improving everyone's lives, and that technology needs to be more willfully employed towards that end. After 12 years and over 30 major conferences, my final flagship Techonomy conference was November 2022 in Sonoma, California. I was proud to launch Techonomy Climate in 2022 in Silicon Valley, a conference that continues. We also hosted a meaningful conference called The Health+Wealth of Our Planet, during 2022 Climate Week in New York, at City Winery at Chelsea Piers. The company was sold to Jim McCann of 1-800-FLOWERS in 2018, and in 2023 it became a brand of Worth Magazine. -
Ceo And Chief TechonomistTechonomy Media Jan 2010 - May 2018New York, New York, UsIn 2010 I co-founded the Techonomy Conference as an LLC, then in 2011 I founded it again as a corporation. Techonomy was a conference and media series that organized conferences including our annual flagship Techonomy Conference. and published extensive articles and video at www.techonomy.com on the role of technology in business and social progress. We hosted dinners and other events throughout the year, often with partners. We hosted flagship Techonomy retreats every year 2011-2019. For four years we hosted one-day Techonomy Detroit conferences, and for five years Techonomy New York. We also did conferences called Techonomy Health, Techonomy Bio, and Techonomy Climate.
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Senior Editor, Internet & TechnologyFortune Magazine Jan 2000 - Aug 2008New York, Ny, UsCovered all the big tech companies, the rise of the Internet, and how technology intersected with other business for Fortune's print magazine, and in 2003 began writing a weekly online and email column entitled Fast Forward, the last years of which can be found at https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fastforward/index.html -
Founder And Host, The Brainstorm Conference And Brainstorm TechFortune Magazine Aug 2001 - Aug 2006New York, Ny, UsSpearheaded the creation and programming of this invitation-only conference on the future for Fortune beginning in 2001. Our initial event debuted less than a month before 9/11, and many were struck that one of our closing speakers had predicted a serious terrorist attack on the United States--albeit in his opinion it would be a bio-terror attack. The conference, which was not a tech event but was founded on attendees who were mostly from the tech industry, continued with one year omitted through summer 2006. Attendees included President Bill Clinton (three times), Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Bill Joy, Marc Benioff, Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch, Fred Krupp of Environmental Defense Fund, Meg Whitman, Scott Cook, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Paul Wolfowitz, John McCain, the foreign minister of Poland, and numerous other luminaries from business, tech, government, the sciences, and academia. Though the event was profitable, Fortune killed it finally, over my objections, in the belief that a more explicitly "tech" conference would serve the needs of the magazine better. Thus Fortune Brainstorm Tech was born. I helped launch that event originally in 2007 with the name Fortune iMeme, and it took the name it retains to this day beginning summer 2008 with the debut at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay. The creation of Brainstorm remains one of my proudest accomplishments.
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Senior Writer And Member Of The Board Of EditorsFortune Magazine 1993 - 2000New York, Ny, UsCovered technology exclusively since January 1991. Wrote cover stories on Apple, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and feature stories on many other companies and topics.
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Reporter/WriterFortune Magazine Dec 1983 - 1993New York, Ny, UsDid a lot of fact-checking, reporting for others' stories, and over time more and more writing. In those days this was an entry-level position in which there was little glory, but lots of work. It was a good laboratory for learning journalism, together with many of the best in the business. During this period I also wrote cover stories on topics like "Will You Be Able to Retire" (July 31, 1989) which was nominated that year for a National Magazine Award in feature writing. It was the magazine's only nomination that year. Yet I was still merely a reporter, who had not been able to be promoted largely because of my activism in the Newspaper Guild. But the absurdity of getting the magazine's only NMA nomination while still being a mere reporter finally led the editors to, perhaps grudgingly, promote me to writer.
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Staff WriterTime Teletext Sep 1982 - Dec 1983This was a development project intended to allow Time Inc. to enter the digital age. Teletext was a video news product distributed experimentally to a few hundred Time Warner cable subscribers in Orlando and San Diego. The business, which sucked up tens of millions of dollars, was in competition with similar nascent efforts at CBS and elsewhere. None of the teletext businesses ever actually became commercial successes. Time Inc.'s project was eventually shut down, at which time I went to Fortune. I was hired there in part because the great Mary Johnston, then the longtime head of reporters, had gotten to know me while we were on the negotiating committees for a union contract–she on management's committee and me on the union's. Mary was one of the great formative influences of my career. "The best reporters ask the dumbest questions," was one of her standard lines.
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Reporter, FyiTime Inc. Aug 1981 - Sep 1982New York, Ny, UsI wrote and reported stories for this in-house biweekly periodical for the employees of Time Inc. This was a traditional training position, intended to lead to a journalism job in the company. As part of the fyi job I served as a part-time correspondent in the New York bureau of Time Magazine. -
Unit ChairpersonThe Newspaper Guild At Time Inc. Jan 1979 - Aug 1981I served as the primary officer of the union of journalists and production employees at Time Inc., as well as on the executive committee of the Newspaper Guild of New York. The union had a generally positive relationship with management at the company in those years. Our grievance committee was seen by an enlightened management as a valuable tool for communication and problem-solving. When I later went to Fortune as a reporter, I was assigned by a former union activist who had gotten promoted into management to cover the labor beat. After I wrote several stories about the health effects of electromagnetic fields, I was considered conversant in technology matters by my editors, and they recruited, or rather drafted, me to switch to the technology beat in January 1991. I never looked back.
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Copy ClerkLife Magazine Aug 1978 - Aug 1981I opened pneumatic tubes and extracted rolls containing 9 copies of computer-printed copy, on paper with perforated edges so it could be drawn through the printer on a remote floor. Then I separated the copies and distributed them to the editors, photo department, researchers, and copyreaders in the copy room, where I was based.
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Video ArtistSelf Employed Mar 1977 - Jun 1979Satellite Beach, Florida, UsWorking with friends from Amherst and Mount Holyoke, I shot and co-produced art videos, mostly with political themes and a literary orientation. Our biggest success was a 20 minute video entitled Milton Le Toaster 1977 which aired for a week in the Projects: Video series at the Museum of Modern Art in 1978.
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