![]() ![]() In 2003, with her colleague Walt Mossberg, she launched the All Things Digital conference and later expanded it into a daily blog called. During that period, she was cited as the most influential reporter covering the Internet by Industry Standard magazine. 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. Swisher joined The Wall Street Journal in 1997, working from its bureau in San Francisco. She interned at The Washington Post in 1986 and was later hired full-time. Swisher worked at the Washington City Paper in Washington, D.C. Preparing for future employment within "the security apparatus", she attempted to learn German, but never mastered the language. Īfter the fall of the Berlin Wall, Swisher received a fellowship that allowed her to live almost a year in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Just one year later in 1985, she received her MS in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Swisher received her BS in literature and journalism from the Edmund A. She wrote for The Hoya, Georgetown's original school newspaper, until she left to write for The Georgetown Voice, the university's younger, scruffier, liberal alternative newspaper. In a 2021 interview with Bryan Elliott for Inc.'s Behind The Brand, Swisher stated that, as a child, she always wanted to work either in the military, with military intelligence, or with the CIA. In a 2019 interview, she said “I grew up very wealthy”. Afterward her family moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where she was raised. Swisher lived in Roslyn Harbor, New York, until her father died when she was five years old. A self-described "liberal, lesbian Donald Trump of San Francisco" in 2016, she expressed interest in running for political office in San Francisco. She has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the All Things Digital conference and the online publication All Things D. From 2018 to 2022, she was an opinion writer for The New York Times, before re-joining Vox Media. In 2014 she co-founded Vox Media's Recode. As of 2023, Swisher was a contributing editor at New York Magazine, the host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher, and the co-host of the podcast Pivot. She has covered the business of the internet since 1994. Kara Anne Swisher ( / ˈ k ɛər ə/ KAIR-ə) is an American journalist. ![]()
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