Hiawatha Bray
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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Hiawatha Bray is a technology columnist for The Boston Globe business section.{{cite web|url=http://search.boston.com/local/Search.do?s.sm.query=Hiawatha+Bray&s.tab=|title=Bio: Hiawatha Bray|work=The Boston Globe|accessdate=7 April 2010}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Education
Born in Chicago, Bray received a bachelor's degree in economics from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1976 and a master's degree in communications from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, in 1985.
Career
Bray started as a reporter and managing editor for Computerpeople Weekly.
He joined the Boston Globe in 1995. Bray has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines which include Wired, Fast Company, and Black Enterprise.{{cite web|title=-Staff list- The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/staff/bray|publisher=Boston Globe|accessdate=15 May 2013}}
In 1998, he predicted that the iMac wouldn't be viable and that Apple "will never be the great company it could have been".{{cite news | last=Bray | first=Hiawatha | title=iMac is too odd to succeed | date=17 May 1998 | work=Lakeland Ledger | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19980517&id=PyQuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Mf0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6529,3370268&hl=en | page=E5}}
Bray wrote for a number of weblogs where he supported President Bush and attacked Senator John Kerry. During the 2004 election, he reported on technological aspects of the presidential campaigns. He also reported on political computer games that encouraged support for Howard Dean's candidacy and several games featured on the Republican National Committee's website.{{cite web|last=Maloy|first=Simon|title=Boston Globe reporter used blogs to attack Kerry, support Bush during '04 campaign {{!}} Research|date=March 2005 |url=http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/03/01/boston-globe-reporter-used-blogs-to-attack-kerr/132824|publisher=Media Matters|accessdate=15 May 2013}}
Bray is the co-author of You Are Here: from the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves.Bray, Hiawatha, and Trish Wilkinson. You Are Here: from the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves. New York, New York: Basic Books, 2014.
Awards and honors
He has received the John Hancock Award for Business Journalism and has been honored by the National Association of Black Journalists. Marketing Computers magazine named him as one of the 10 most influential newspaper journalists covering technology. He also received an Overseas Press Club award for his work on the internet in Africa.
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