Walter Mossberg

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. In addition to "Personal Technology," Mossberg also writes two other weekly columns in The Wall Street Journal. In "Mossberg's Mailbox," he answers readers' questions about technology, and in "The Mossberg Solution," he compares and contrasts consumer electronic gadgets.

Widely heralded as one of the most powerful and influential technology journalists in the country, Mossberg has an immense breadth of computer knowledge. His work has been commended by Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post and The New York Times to name a few. No matter what the publication, everyone seems to agree that Mossberg has the ability to single-handedly move a product from the shelves to consumers by praising it in his columns.

Mossberg also contributes as an editor of Smart Money, The Wall Street Journal's monthly magazine, where he writes a column called "The Mossberg Report." On television, he is a regular technology commentator for the CNBC network, and a frequent guest of numerous other channels.

Mossberg was awarded the 1999 Loeb Award for Commentary, the only technology writer to be so honored. For seven years in a row, 1995-2001, and again in 2003, he was named by Technology Marketing magazine as the most influential journalist writing on computers and the internet.

In May of 2001, he received an honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Rhode Island. That same month, he was awarded a 2001 National Headliner Award. In 2002, he won the World Technology Award for Media and Journalism and was inducted into the ranks of the Business News Luminaries, the hall of fame for business journalists.

Mossberg, 56, has been a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal since 1970. He is based in its Washington, DC, office, where he spent 18 years covering national and international affairs before turning his attention to technology. Today he spends his free time touring the country, speaking about the ever-changing technological shifts which will guide our lives for years to come.