Bob Sullivan (journalist)
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| birth_place = Woodbridge, New Jersey, U.S.
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| notableworks = Stop Getting Ripped Off
Gotcha Capitalism
Red Tape Chronicles
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| alma_mater = Fairfield University
Missouri School of Journalism
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| subject = Consumer advocate
Cybercrime/fraud
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| website = {{URL|bobsullivan.net}}
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Bob Sullivan (born 1968{{cite web | url = http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n2004-91214 | title = Sullivan, Bob 1968- | publisher = WorldCat | access-date = June 21, 2011}} in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey){{cite web | url = http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/Financial_Literacy/identity_theft/risks_of_ID_theft_a1.asp | title = Spotlight: Bob Sullivan | first = Jay | last = MacDonald | publisher = Bankrate.com | date = April 21, 2008 | access-date = June 21, 2011}} is an American online journalist, author and one of the founding members of msnbc.com. Sullivan is the author of two New York Times Bestsellers entitled Stop Getting Ripped Off and Gotcha Capitalism.{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/books/bestseller/0127bestpaperadvice.html | title = The New York Times Best Sellers: Paperback Advice | work=The New York Times | date = January 27, 2008 | access-date = March 19, 2009 }} Sullivan is a journalist at BobSullivan.net and an author. Formerly, he was senior writer, technology correspondent and author of the popular blog, The Red Tape Chronicles, at msnbc.com, where he focused on technology crime and consumer fraud. He also regularly appears on air on MSNBC, CNBC's On the Money, NBC Nightly News, the Today show, and various local NBC affiliates.{{cite news |url = https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10913365 | title = Bob Sullivan, Technology correspondent | work = NBC News | access-date = December 21, 2008 }}
Education
Sullivan received his B.A. in history and mathematics from Fairfield University in 1990.{{cite web | url = http://www.fairfield.edu/documents/publications/fn_spring05.pdf | title = Bob Sullivan's foray into crime | first = Nina M. | last = Riccio | work = Fairfield Now | publisher = Fairfield University | date = Spring 2005 | access-date = June 21, 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101124003825/http://fairfield.edu/documents/publications/fn_spring05.pdf | archive-date = November 24, 2010 }} He received an M.A. in Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1996.{{cite web | url = http://journalism.missouri.edu/alumni/news/2004-10/1990s.html | title = Alumni News | publisher = Missouri School of Journalism | date = October 2004 | access-date = June 21, 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110927225757/http://journalism.missouri.edu/alumni/news/2004-10/1990s.html | archive-date = September 27, 2011 }}
Career
Sullivan has been reporting on computer crime, electronic financial fraud, privacy, and the Internet Underground and has written more than 100 articles on the subjects since 1996.
Sullivan was the first to report to Americans that the FBI had developed a computer program, called Magic Lantern, designed to obtain public encryption keys on November 20, 2001.{{cite news |url = https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3341694 | title = FBI software cracks encryption wall | first = Bob | last = Sullivan | work = NBC News | date = November 20, 2001 | access-date = December 21, 2008 }} He was also the first to describe the data theft at ChoicePoint, the first of what would become an avalanche of stories about stolen and lost personal information on February 18, 2005.{{cite news |url = https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6979897 | title = Data theft affects 145,000 nationwide | first = Bob | last = Sullivan | work = NBC News | date = February 18, 2005 | access-date = December 21, 2008 }}
Sullivan is the recipient of several journalism awards. In 2002, Sullivan won the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award for his series of articles on online fraud. In 2003, he received the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab CyberSecurity Journalism Award for his online cybersecurity reporting.{{cite news | url = http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases03/031029_cyberwin.html | title = Carnegie Mellon's Prestigious Cybersecurity Reporting Awards Go To ABC News, ABC Nightline, MSNBC.com and The Washington Post | first = Chris | last = Swaney | publisher = Carnegie Mellon | date = October 29, 2003 | access-date = December 21, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080708234519/http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases03/031029_cyberwin.html | archive-date = July 8, 2008 | url-status = dead }} More recently, in 2016, Sullivan accepted the Betty Furness Consumer Media Service Award from the Consumer Federation of America in recognition of his two decades writing and speaking "critically about anti-consumer practices both through major news outlets and a series of books."{{cite web|title=Consumer Federation of America: Forty-Sixth Annual Awards Dinner |publisher=Consumer Federation of America |access-date=July 8, 2016|url=http://consumerfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CFA-Awards-Program-16.pdf}}{{cite web|title=CFA speech movie |publisher=YouTube |work= Bob Sullivan |access-date=July 8, 2016|url=https://www.youtube.com/embed/1ZeTi9bSc94}}
Bibliography
- Bob Sullivan and Herbert Hugh Thompson. Getting Unstuck: Break Free of the Plateau Effect. Penguin, 2014. ({{ISBN|0698183819}})
- Bob Sullivan and Herbert Hugh Thompson. The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success. Penguin, 2013. ({{ISBN|1101624248}})
- Bob Sullivan. Stop Getting Ripped Off: Why Consumers Get Screwed, and How You Can Always Get a Fair Deal. Ballantine Books, 2009. ({{ISBN|978-0-345-51159-1}})
- Bob Sullivan. Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day-and What You Can Do About It. Ballantine Books, 2007. ({{ISBN|978-0-345-49613-3}})
- Bob Sullivan. Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic. John Wiley & Sons, 2004. ({{ISBN|978-0-471-64810-9}})
References
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External links
- [http://www.bobsullivan.net Bob Sullivan's Official Website]
- [https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10913365 nbcnews.com Profile]
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Category:American male journalists
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