Walter Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991.
Newsweek magazine calls Mr. Mossberg "a champion of the technology-befuddled Everyman" and "the most powerful arbiter of consumer tastes in the computer world today." Time magazine calls him "the most influential computer journalist." Brill's Content, the watchdog magazine that covers the press, ranks Mr. Mossberg as one of the 25 most influential people in the American news media.
For his work on the Personal Technology column, Mr. Mossberg was awarded the 1999 Loeb award for Commentary. For five years in a row, 1995 to 1999, Mr. Mossberg has been named as the most influential journalist writing about computers in the annual ranking published by Marketing Computers magazine. For four years in a row, Upside magazine has ranked him as one of the 100 most influential people in the digital world.
In addition to Personal Technology, Mr. Mossberg also writes a second weekly column in the Journal, called Mossberg's Mailbox, in which he answers readers' questions. He is also a contributing editor of Smart Money, the Journal's monthly magazine, where he writes the Mossberg Report column. On television, Mr. Mossberg appears frequently as a technology commentator for the CNBC network, and he contributes a weekly commentary to the new public-television series, Digital Duo.
Mr. Mossberg has been a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal since 1970. He is based in the Journal's Washington, D.C., office, where he spent 18 years covering national and international affairs before turning his attention to technology. A native of Warwick, Rhode Island, he graduated from Brandeis University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
