Andrew Leonard
{{short description|American journalist}}
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Andrew Leonard (born 1962) is an American journalist who writes feature articles for San Francisco and contributes to Medium. From 1995 to 2014 he wrote for Salon.com.{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2014/09/14/how_i_switched_sides_in_the_technology_wars/ |title=How I switched sides in the technology wars |last1=Leonard |first1=Andrew | date= 14 September 2014 |website=Salon |publisher= Salon Media Group}} He has also written for Wired.
Career
Leonard is credited with coining the term "open-source journalism".{{cite book|first=Leah |last=Lievrouw |title=Alternative and Activist New Media |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Rum5tmxshYC&pg=PA127 |access-date=31 May 2013 |year=2011 |publisher=Polity |isbn=978-0-7456-4183-6 |page=127}} He is the author of Bots: The Origin of New Species, which The New York Times called a "playful social history of the internet".{{cite news|date=August 10, 1997 |title=Virtual Bedlam |first=J. D. |last=Biersdorfer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/10/reviews/970810.10biersdt.html |work=The New York Times}} According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, also writing in the Times, the book is "deceptively profound".{{cite news|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:ORLB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB4F3D09034E6AD&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D663DC0A81A15EA |title=Author Traces the Family Tree of Software Bots |date=October 8, 1997 |first=Christopher |last=Lehmann-Haupt |via=Orlando Sentinel |work=The New York Times}}{{subscription required}} Bots was one of the first few books published by Wired'
For six years{{cite web|last=Leonard|first=Andrew|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/05/31/my_wikipedia_hall_of_mirrors/|date=May 31, 2013 |access-date=May 31, 2013 |work=Salon.com |title=My Wikipedia hall of mirrors}} as a financial analyst for Salon.com,{{cite news|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:TRSB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=137CCDBB14400948&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D663DC0A81A15EA |title=What keeps Wall Street miscreants out of jail? |work=Toronto Star |date=June 11, 2011 |first=David |last=Olive}}{{subscription required}} Leonard wrote a blog, How the World Works, covering topics such as speculation in the car market,{{cite news|title=Fake Gems, Genuine Appeal|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/technology/21online.html |work=The New York Times|date=June 21, 2008 |page=C5 |first=Dan |last=Mitchell}} the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act,{{cite news|work=The New York Times|page=C5|title=Broke but Still Borrowing|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/15/technology/15online.html?pagewanted=print |date=September 15, 2007 |first=Dan |last=Mitchell}} and immigration reform.{{cite news|work=The New York Times|title=An Open Mind on Open Borders |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/business/01online.html |first=Dan |last=Mitchell |date=April 1, 2006|page=C5}}
Currently he is the writer of the popular newsletter titled, "The Cleaver and the Butterfly".{{Cite web |last=Leonard |first=Andrew |title=The Cleaver and the Butterfly {{!}} Andrew Leonard {{!}} Substack |url=https://andrewleonard.substack.com/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=andrewleonard.substack.com |language=en}}
Leonard is the son of the American literary, television, film, and cultural critic John Leonard.{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2008/11/07/john_leonard/|title=Remembering John Leonard |last=Miller |first=Laura |date=November 7, 2008 |work=Salon.com |access-date=May 31, 2013}}
Selected works
- {{cite book|last=Leonard|first=Andrew|title=Bots: The Origin of New Species|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQgKAAAACAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Penguin Group|isbn=978-0-14-027566-7}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.salon.com/writer/andrew_leonard/# Salon page for Andrew Leonard]
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Category:Salon (website) people
Category:American magazine journalists
Category:American technology writers
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