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Kara Swisher
Kara Anne Swisher (/ˈkɛərə/ KAIR-ə; born December 11, 1962) is an American journalist. She has covered the business of the internet since 1994. As of 2023, Swisher was a contributing editor at New York Magazine, the host of On with Kara Swisher, and co-host of Pivot.
In 2014, she co-founded Vox Media's Recode with Walt Mossberg. From 2018 to 2022, she served as an opinion writer for The New York Times before returning to Vox Media. Her previous work includes reporting for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, as well as co-creating All Things Digital and its conference.[citation needed]
Swisher was born on December 11, 1962, and lived in Roslyn Harbor, Long Island, New York, until her father died when she was five years old. Her family then moved to Princeton, New Jersey, and she grew up there. In a 2021 interview with Bryan Elliott for Inc.'s Behind The Brand, Swisher said that as a child, she always wanted to work either in the military, with military intelligence, or with the CIA.
Swisher attended the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. At Georgetown, she wrote for The Hoya, Georgetown's school newspaper, and then for the school's news magazine, The Georgetown Voice. During her sophomore and junior years, she interned at The Washington Post, which solidified her career in journalism. She obtained her undergraduate degree in 1984. In 1985, she graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with an MS in journalism. She "spent some time" at Duke University studying misinformation and propaganda, which Swisher said were always her area of study".
After graduating, Swisher first worked at the Washington City Paper in Washington, D.C.
Swisher returned to The Washington Post in 1986 as a news aide for the Style desk before becoming a reporter covering the local retail beat.[citation needed][full citation needed][failed verification][failed verification]
Swisher identifies her tenure at the Post as the period when she began extensively using technology, noting that she carried a "suitcase" cell phone during that time. She received national attention for covering AOL and the beginning of the dot-com era in the 1990s. While working for the business section of the paper, Swisher decided to leave to devote time to writing AOL.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web. It was during this time that she first met Walt Mossberg, a veteran tech journalist who would become a close friend and co-owner of the AllThingsD blog.[verification needed]
Swisher joined The Wall Street Journal in 1997, working from its bureau in San Francisco. She created and wrote Boom Town, a column devoted to the companies, personalities, and culture of Silicon Valley, which appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section and online. During that time, she was cited as being the most influential reporter covering the internet by Industry Standard magazine.
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Kara Swisher
Kara Anne Swisher (/ˈkɛərə/ KAIR-ə; born December 11, 1962) is an American journalist. She has covered the business of the internet since 1994. As of 2023, Swisher was a contributing editor at New York Magazine, the host of On with Kara Swisher, and co-host of Pivot.
In 2014, she co-founded Vox Media's Recode with Walt Mossberg. From 2018 to 2022, she served as an opinion writer for The New York Times before returning to Vox Media. Her previous work includes reporting for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, as well as co-creating All Things Digital and its conference.[citation needed]
Swisher was born on December 11, 1962, and lived in Roslyn Harbor, Long Island, New York, until her father died when she was five years old. Her family then moved to Princeton, New Jersey, and she grew up there. In a 2021 interview with Bryan Elliott for Inc.'s Behind The Brand, Swisher said that as a child, she always wanted to work either in the military, with military intelligence, or with the CIA.
Swisher attended the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. At Georgetown, she wrote for The Hoya, Georgetown's school newspaper, and then for the school's news magazine, The Georgetown Voice. During her sophomore and junior years, she interned at The Washington Post, which solidified her career in journalism. She obtained her undergraduate degree in 1984. In 1985, she graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with an MS in journalism. She "spent some time" at Duke University studying misinformation and propaganda, which Swisher said were always her area of study".
After graduating, Swisher first worked at the Washington City Paper in Washington, D.C.
Swisher returned to The Washington Post in 1986 as a news aide for the Style desk before becoming a reporter covering the local retail beat.[citation needed][full citation needed][failed verification][failed verification]
Swisher identifies her tenure at the Post as the period when she began extensively using technology, noting that she carried a "suitcase" cell phone during that time. She received national attention for covering AOL and the beginning of the dot-com era in the 1990s. While working for the business section of the paper, Swisher decided to leave to devote time to writing AOL.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web. It was during this time that she first met Walt Mossberg, a veteran tech journalist who would become a close friend and co-owner of the AllThingsD blog.[verification needed]
Swisher joined The Wall Street Journal in 1997, working from its bureau in San Francisco. She created and wrote Boom Town, a column devoted to the companies, personalities, and culture of Silicon Valley, which appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section and online. During that time, she was cited as being the most influential reporter covering the internet by Industry Standard magazine.
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