Christopher Mims
{{Short description|American journalist}}
{{for|the football player|Chris Mims}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2016}}
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|alma_mater = Emory University
|birth_place=United States
|occupation= Technology journalist
|employer = The Wall Street Journal
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Christopher Mims is an American author and technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal,{{cite web | url=http://www.boston.com/business/technology/2014/11/10/obama-comes-out-support-net-neutrality/2D5dd6DRwPRnbREDtEn8bL/story.html | title=Obama Voices Strong Support for Net Neutrality | publisher=Boston.com | accessdate=November 13, 2014}} which he joined in 2014.
Early life
Mims received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University in 2001.{{cite web|title=Christopher Mims|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/author/8003|website=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=15 February 2018}}
Career
Mims taught English in Japan for six months and worked in a neuroscience lab.{{cite web |title=Researchers develop MRI technique to study brain anatomy in invertebrates |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/573812 |website=EurekAlert! |access-date=2 July 2022 |language=en |date=December 15, 2004 |quote=Herberholz and his colleagues, including Georgia State professor Donald Edwards, Georgia State lab technician Christopher Mims, and Emory University's Xiaodong Zhang and Xiaoping Hu, developed manganese-enhanced MRI to study the crayfish brain.}}{{cite web |title=Christopher Mims Q&A |url=https://www.wsjplus.com/journalists/christopher-mims |website=WSJ+ |access-date=2 July 2022 |language=en}}
He was a science and technology correspondent and editor for Quartz,{{cite web |title=Christopher Mims — Technology Columnist |url=https://www.wsj.com/news/author/christopher-mims |website=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=2 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190206213315/https://www.wsj.com/news/author/christopher-mims |archive-date=6 February 2019 |language=en}} and also worked as an editor at Scientific American,{{cite news |last1=Mims |first1=Christopher |title=Strange but True: Testosterone Alone Does Not Cause Violence |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-testosterone-alone-doesnt-cause-violence/ |access-date=2 July 2022 |work=Scientific American |language=en}} Technology Review,{{Cite news |last=Davies |first=Dave |date=January 5, 2022 |title=The global supply chain is amazingly efficient. So why did it break down? |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1070514847/the-global-supply-chain-arriving-today-christopher-mims |access-date=January 8, 2025 |work=NPR}} Smithsonian and Grist.{{cite web |title=Christopher Mims |url=https://grist.org/author/christopher-mims/page/120/ |access-date=2 July 2022 |website=Grist |language=en-us}} Mims has also had bylines in The BBC, Wired, and Nature{{Cite web |title=Christopher Mims |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/author/christopher-mims |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}. Mims was also a producer at Small Mammal,{{cite web |title=The Science of YouTube: Cuuute! |url=https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-02/science-youtube-cuuute/ |website=Popular Science |access-date=2 July 2022 |date=13 February 2009}} where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate, Popular Science, and Nature.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
Mims wrote in a 2014 article for The Wall Street Journal stating that the password "is finally dying." He predicted that passwords would be replaced by device-based authentication. To prove his point, he purposefully revealed his Twitter password. He later wrote that his Twitter account stayed secure, but a security researcher was able to exploit a vulnerability in Twitter to steal his cell phone number; ultimately he had to get a new cellphone number.
- {{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-password-is-finally-dying-heres-mine-1405298376 |title=The Password is Finally Dying. Here's Mine |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=14 July 2014 |accessdate=2015-03-14 |first=Christopher |last=Mims |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150109000225/http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-password-is-finally-dying-heres-mine-1405298376 |archivedate=2015-01-09}}
- {{cite web |last1=Mims |first1=Christopher |title=Commentary: What I Learned, and What You Should Know, After I Published My Twitter Password |url=http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/15/commentary-what-i-learned-and-what-you-should-know-after-i-published-my-twitter-password/ |website=Wall Street Journal |access-date=2 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716151110/http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/15/commentary-what-i-learned-and-what-you-should-know-after-i-published-my-twitter-password/ |archive-date=16 July 2014 |date=15 July 2014}}{{Cite news |last=Oremus |first=Will |date=2014-08-08 |title=In Defense of Passwords |url=https://slate.com/technology/2014/08/death-of-the-password-biometrics-device-based-authentication-also-flawed.html |access-date=2025-01-08 |work=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339}}
In 2017, Mims won a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) a Best in Business award for his column in The Wall Street Journal.{{Cite web |title=2017 Best in Business Honorees |url=https://sabew.org/contestsawards/2017-best-in-business-honorees/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=SABEW |language=en-US}}
In September 2021, his book Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy was published by HarperCollins.{{Cite web |title=Arriving Today |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/arriving-today-christopher-mims?variant=33080441274402 |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=HarperCollins |language=en}} The book focused on e-commerce and its effects on the modern world, from supply chains, to sustainability, to the workers who make the goods we buy, and move those products around the world. The book follows a hypothetical USB drive from its manufacture in Vietnam, to delivery at a hypothetical home in Connecticut. Because the book was published in 2021, it also examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on e-commerce supply chains.{{Cite web |last=Zuidema |first=Jason |date=2021-09-27 |title=Book Review: Arriving Today by Christopher Mims |url=https://marereport.namma.org/index.php/2021/09/27/book-review-arriving-today-by-christopher-mims/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=The MARE Report |language=en-US}} The book won a 2021 Business Book Award from Porchlight Books, in the Current Events category.{{Cite news |title=2021 Winners - Business Book Awards {{!}} Porchlight |url=https://www.porchlightbooks.com/awards/business-book-awards-2021 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250101233029/https://www.porchlightbooks.com/awards/business-book-awards-2021 |archive-date=2025-01-01 |access-date=2025-01-08 |work=Porchlight Book Company |language=en}}
References
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