1. Kara Swisher has covered the business of the internet since 1994.
21 Facts About Kara Swisher
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Kara Swisher has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, co-produced the All Things Digital conference, and the online publication All Things D A self-described "liberal, lesbian Donald Trump of San Francisco" in 2016, she briefly talked publicly about a possible run for political office in San Francisco.
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Kara Swisher's family moved to Princeton, New Jersey, and she grew up there.
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Kara Swisher "spent some time" at Duke University studying misinformation and propaganda, which Swisher said were "always my area of study".
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Kara Swisher used to drag a suitcase cell phone around the office.
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Kara Swisher received national attention for covering AOL and the beginning of the dot-com era that defined the 1990's.
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Kara Swisher joined The Wall Street Journal in 1997, working from its bureau in San Francisco.
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Kara Swisher 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.
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In May 2020, Kara Swisher wrote on Twitter that she had not been involved in editing or assigning stories on Recode for many years.
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Kara Swisher became a contributing writer to the New York Times Opinion section in August 2018, focusing on tech.
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Kara Swisher has written about topics like Elon Musk, Kevin Systrom's departure from Instagram, Google and censorship, and an internet Bill of Rights.
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In September 2020, the Times premiered Sway, a semiweekly podcast hosted by Kara Swisher focused on the subject of power and those who wield it, with Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the United States House of Representatives featured as her first guest.
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In June 2022, Kara Swisher announced that she would leave The New York Times to pursue a new project at New York magazine.
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Kara Swisher told Rolling Stone writer Claire Hoffman: "A lot of these people I cover are babies", Swisher says.
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Kara Swisher appeared as herself in a 2015 episode of the HBO show Silicon Valley.
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In 2021 and 2023, Kara Swisher hosted the official companion podcast for the third and fourth seasons of HBO's TV series Succession.
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Kara Swisher was seen as likely to run on a "highly progressive" platform with a focus on more housing, legalizing marijuana and new labor laws for the "on-demand" workforce that dominated San Francisco.
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Kara Swisher married engineer and technology executive Megan Smith in Marin County in 1999 at a time when same-sex marriage was not legal in California.
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Kara Swisher married Amanda Katz on October 3,2020, with whom she adopted two children.
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In 2011, Kara Swisher suffered a "mini-stroke" while on a flight to Hong Kong where she was hospitalized and put on anticoagulant medication.
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Kara Swisher wrote about the experience in a remembrance of Luke Perry, after a stroke led to his death in 2019.