Josh Quittner was born on February 12,1957 and is an American journalist.
12 Facts About Josh Quittner
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Josh Quittner is CEO of Decrypt Media, a website which covers cryptocurrencies, NFTs and Web3.
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Josh Quittner is a graduate of Grinnell College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Josh Quittner is married to Michelle Slatalla and has three daughters, including Ella Quittner, who is a journalist and screenwriter.
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Josh Quittner has co-authored five books with his wife, including Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace about the New York-based hacker group Masters of Deception, Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How it Challenged Microsoft, Mother's Day, Flame War: A Cyberthriller, and Shoofly Pie to Die.
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Josh Quittner was a crime reporter and a general assignment writer before he started to write about technology from the consumer side at Newsday in 1992.
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Josh Quittner then freelanced for Wired Magazine and was the original domain-name holder of mcdonalds.
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Josh Quittner later turned the domain over to Mcdonald's after they donated 3,500$ to a public school in Brooklyn, New York for computers and internet access at his request.
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Josh Quittner joined Time Inc as a staff writer in 1995.
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Josh Quittner then became the editor of Time's spinoff technology supplement Time Digital, later called ON Magazine.
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From April 2002 until September 2007 Josh Quittner was the editor of Business 2.0.
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Josh Quittner briefly revived "Netly News" as the name of a Business 2.0 blog.