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Walt Mossberg

Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He is also the co-creator and co-producer of the technology industry's most prestigious annual conference, D: All Things Digital, hosted by the Journal each spring. In addition to Personal Technology, Mr. Mossberg also writes the Mossberg's Mailbox column in the Journal, and edits the Mossberg Solution column. On television, Mr. Mossberg is a regular technology commentator for the CNBC network. Online, he is the co-executive editor of the forthcoming technology web site, allthingsd.com, which extends the experience of the D Conference to the Web.
In a major 2004 profile of Mr. Mossberg, entitled "The Kingmaker," Wired Magazine declared: " Few reviewers have held so much power to shape an industry's successes and failures...Chances are he has influenced the look, feel and performance of your laptop, mobile phone, and MP3 player."
Mr. Mossberg, 59, has been a reporter and editor at the Journal since 1970. He is based in the Journal's Washington, D.C., office. A native of Warwick, Rhode Island, he holds degrees from Brandeis University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

 

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