Kara Swisher

Swisher lived in Roslyn Harbor, Long Island, New York, until her father died when she was five years old. Her family moved to Princeton, New Jersey, and she grew up there.{{cite web | last=Elliott | first=Bryan | title=Behind the Brand With Kara Swisher | website=Inc.com | date=2021-04-20 | url=https://www.inc.com/bryan-elliott/behind-brand-with-kara-swisher.html | access-date=2022-04-18}} In a 2021 interview with Bryan Elliott for Inc.'s Behind The Brand, Swisher said that as a child, she always wanted to work either in the military, with military intelligence, or with the CIA.

Swisher attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. At Georgetown, she wrote for The Hoya, Georgetown's school newspaper and then for the school's news magazine, The Georgetown Voice.{{cite news |last=Dodderidge |first=Lili |date=October 5, 2010 |title=Top Internet Journalists Talk News |url=http://www.thehoya.com/top-internet-journalists-talk-news/ |access-date=February 25, 2013 |work=The Hoya |archive-date=November 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129010842/https://thehoya.com/top-internet-journalists-talk-news/ |url-status=dead }} During her sophomore and junior years, she interned at The Washington Post which solidified her career in journalism.{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Charlotte |date=2023-03-28 |title=“I’ll Walk Away From Anything”: Kara Swisher Calls the Shots |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/kara-swisher-podcasts |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}} She obtained her undergraduate degree in 1984.{{Cite web |title=Prominent Alumni |url=https://sfs.georgetown.edu/mission/prominent-alumni/ |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=SFS - School of Foreign Service - Georgetown University |language=en-US}} In 1985, she graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with a MS in journalism.{{Cite web |title=Kara Swisher |url=https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/pride/kara-swisher/ |access-date=2022-07-15 |website=Columbia Entrepreneurship |language=en-US |archive-date=February 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205053059/https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/pride/kara-swisher/ |url-status=dead }} She "spent some time" at Duke University studying misinformation and propaganda, which Swisher said were "always my area of study".{{Cite web |date=2023-10-19 |title=Artificial intelligence "can be a weapon, but it's a tool" - an interview with tech journalist Kara Swisher |url=https://www.vpm.org/2023-10-19/artificial-intelligence-can-be-a-weapon-but-its-a-tool-an-interview-with-tech-journalist-kara-swisher |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=VPM |language=en}}

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Swisher received a fellowship allowing her to live almost a year in Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. Preparing for future employment within "the security apparatus", she attempted to learn German but never mastered the language.{{cite web | url=https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/84530656 | title=Podcast transcripts, sponsors, and audience data - Podscribe }} Then Swisher worked at the Washington City Paper in Washington, D.C. She returned to The Washington Post in 1986 as a news aid for the Style desk before becoming a reporter covering the local retail beat.{{Cite news|url=https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/pride/kara-swisher/|title=Kara Swisher|website=Columbia Entrepreneurship|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-05|archive-date=February 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205053059/https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/pride/kara-swisher/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite podcast|url=https://player.fm/series/recode-decode-hosted-by-kara-swisher-88572/ryan-murphy-what-if-hollywood-had-welcomed-diversity-from-the-beginning|title=Ryan Murphy: What if Hollywood had welcomed diversity from the beginning?|website=Recode Decode|publisher=Vox Media|host=Kara Swisher|date=May 1, 2020|access-date=May 1, 2020}}

Swisher credits the Post as where she "significantly started to use technology". She used to drag a suitcase cell phone around the office. She received national attention for covering AOL and the beginning of the dot-com era that defined the 1990's. While working for the business section of the paper, Swisher decided to leave to devote time to writing [https://www.amazon.com/aol-com-Steve-Nailed-Netheads-Millions/dp/0812928962/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_1/145-5643258-4686835?pd_rd_w=MdFjC&content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&pf_rd_r=RZR82NEFRDQE01T3QNJG&pd_rd_wg=EodVW&pd_rd_r=107ac6d8-7d46-4da7-afb0-5409783f1a15&pd_rd_i=0812928962&psc=1 AOL.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web]. It was during this time that she first met Walt Mossberg, a veteran tech journalist who would become a close friend and co-owner of the AllThingsD blog.

Swisher joined The Wall Street Journal in 1997, working from its bureau in San Francisco. She 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. During that time, she was cited as being the most influential reporter covering the internet by Industry Standard magazine.{{Citation

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In 2003, with her colleague Walt Mossberg, she launched the All Things Digital conference and later expanded it into a daily blog called AllThingsD.com. The conference featured interviews by Swisher and Mossberg of top technology executives including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Ellison.{{cite news |last1=Ellison |title=Transcript: Kara Swisher, Author, "Burn Book: A Tech Love Story" |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2024/02/27/transcript-kara-swisher-author-burn-book-tech-love-story/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 April 2024}}

{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?108473-1/aolcom Presentation by Swisher on aol.com, July 8, 1998], C-SPAN| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?532884-1/after-words-kara-swisher Q&A interview with Swisher on Burn Book, March 1, 2024], C-SPAN}}

She is the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, published by Times Business Print Books in July 1998. The sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future, was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Print Books. In 2021, it was announced that she signed a two-book memoir deal with Simon & Schuster.{{Cite web|title=Book Deals: Week of July 27, 2020|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/83955-book-deals-week-of-july-27-2020.html|access-date=2021-06-10|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}} The first, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, was released in February 2024.

On January 1, 2014, Swisher and Mossberg struck out on their own with the Recode website, based in San Francisco.{{cite news|last1=Wasserman|first1=Todd|title=Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher Launch Tech News Site 'Re/code'|url=http://mashable.com/2014/01/01/walt-mossberg-kara-swisher-recode |access-date=October 23, 2016 |work=Mashable |date=January 1, 2014}} In the spring of 2014 they held the inaugural Code Conference near Los Angeles.{{cite magazine |last1=Levy |first1=Steven |title=Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them |url=https://www.wired.com/story/kara-swisher-burn-book/ |magazine=Wired |publisher=Wired |access-date=24 April 2024}} Vox Media acquired the website in May 2015.{{Cite press release|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/network-radio-executives-spencer-brown-and-david-landau-partner-with-vc-michael-rolnick-to-launch-new-venture-called-dgital-media-to-create-distribute-and-monetize-audio-programs-300089194.html|title=Network Radio Executives Spencer Brown and David Landau partner with VC Michael Rolnick to launch new venture called DGital Media to create, distribute and monetize audio programs|agency=PR Newswire|access-date=15 July 2018}} A month later in June 2015, they launched Recode Decode, a weekly podcast in which Swisher interviews prominent figures in the technology space with Stewart Butterfield featured as the first guest.{{cite news|url=https://www.recode.net/2015/7/15/11614728/whats-the-deal-with-elon-musk-ashlee-vance-tells-all-on-recode-decode|title=What's the Deal With Elon Musk? Ashlee Vance Tells All on 'Re/code Decode' Podcast.|work=Recode|access-date=15 July 2018}}

In September 2018, Recode and Vox Media launched Pivot, a semi-weekly news commentary podcast co-hosted by Swisher and Scott Galloway. In April 2020, New York Magazine announced Pivot would be joining the magazine's properties, dropping the Recode branding, and Swisher would also join as editor-at-large.{{Cite web|date=2020-04-13|title=Pivot Podcast Joins New York Magazine|url=https://nymag.com/press/2020/04/pivot-podcast-joins-new-york-magazine.html|access-date=2020-10-15|website=New York Magazine}} In May 2020, Swisher wrote on Twitter that she had not been involved in editing or assigning stories on Recode for many years.{{cite tweet |user=karaswisher |number=1263115936057286656 |date=20 May 2020 |title=While I typically ignore this type of trolling, FYI I have not edited the recode web site for many years now and am not involved in its editing or assigning at all for that long too but keep up with the bad reporting and worse writing. It's embarrassing and more than a little sad }}

Swisher became a contributing writer to the New York Times{{'}} Opinion section in August 2018, focusing on tech.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/column/kara-swisher|title=Kara Swisher|newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}} She has written about topics like Elon Musk, Kevin Systrom's departure from Instagram, Google and censorship, and an internet Bill of Rights.

In September 2020, the Times premiered Sway, a semiweekly podcast hosted by Swisher focused on the subject of power and those who wield it,{{Cite web|date=2020-09-10|title=Introducing "Sway," a New Interview Podcast Hosted by Kara Swisher|url=https://www.nytco.com/press/introducing-sway-a-new-interview-podcast-hosted-by-kara-swisher/|access-date=2021-06-10|website=The New York Times Company|language=en-US}} with Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the United States House of Representatives featured as her first guest.{{Cite web|date=2020-09-10|title=Introducing 'Sway' With Kara Swisher|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-trailer.html|access-date=2020-10-15|website=The New York Times}} Other guests have included Georgia politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, actor Sacha Baron Cohen, Apple CEO Tim Cook, entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, former Presidential candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, film director Spike Lee, Parler CEO John Matze, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, USSF CSO Gen. John W. Raymond, and social activist and personality Monica Lewinsky.

In June 2022, Swisher announced that she would leave The New York Times to pursue a new project at New York magazine.{{cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/kara-swisher-tech-and-media-star-to-leave-the-new-york-times|title=Kara Swisher, Tech and Media Star, to Leave The New York Times|newspaper=Vanity Fair|access-date=31 July 2023}}

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Swisher became an editor-at-large at New York Magazine and the host of On with Kara Swisher in September 2022. The first episode of 'On' premiered September 26.{{cite web|url=https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/host/kara-swisher|title=Vox Media Podcast Network: Kara Swisher|access-date=31 July 2023}}

Swisher was a judge{{cite web|title=Mayor Bloomberg Announces Winners of NYC BigApps 2.0 Competition|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2011a/pr104-11.html|publisher=NYC.gov. March 31, 2011|access-date=June 5, 2013}} for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's NYC BigApps competition in New York. She told Rolling Stone writer Claire Hoffman: "A lot of these people I cover are babies", Swisher says. "I always call them papier-mâché–they just wilt."{{cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/recodes-kara-swisher-tech-disrupter-plots-political-move-w501656|title=Recode's Kara Swisher, Silicon Valley's Disrupter, Plots Political Move|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2017|archive-date=November 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108152146/http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/recodes-kara-swisher-tech-disrupter-plots-political-move-w501656|url-status=dead}}

Swisher appeared as herself in a 2015 episode of the HBO show Silicon Valley.{{Cite magazine |last=Marantz |first=Andrew |date=June 9, 2016 |title=How "Silicon Valley" Nails Silicon Valley |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-valley-nails-silicon-valley?verso=true |magazine=The New Yorker}}

Swisher wrote of her experiences working for The McLaughlin Group in a 2018 Slate article, in which she alleged that host John McLaughlin abused staff and sexually harassed women. Reflecting on his death from prostate cancer in 2016, she wrote, "I’m so glad he’s dead. Seriously, I’m glad he’s dead. He was a jackass. He deserved it."{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/10/kara-swisher-interview-best-worst-bosses.html|title=I Just Knew I Was Going to Surpass These Guys I Was Working For|work=Slate|date=October 18, 2018|access-date=31 May 2020}}

In January 2019, Swisher told people who disapproved of a Gillette advertisement after the January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation, "... to all you aggrieved folks who thought this Gillette ad was too much bad-men-shaming, after we just saw it come to life with those awful kids and their fetid smirking harassing that elderly man on the Mall: Go __ yourselves."{{cite tweet|number=1086735766997344261|user=karaswisher|title=And to all you aggrieved folks who thought this Gillette ad was too much bad-men-shaming, after we just saw it come…|date=January 19, 2019}} Citing Swisher's comment as an example of how inaccurate many media accounts of the story had been, Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic Monthly observed, "You know the left has really changed in this country when you find its denizens... lionizing the social attitudes of the corporate monolith Procter & Gamble."{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must-learn-covington-catholic-story/581035/|title=The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story|last=Flanagan|first=Caitlin|date=January 23, 2019|newspaper=The Atlantic}} Swisher apologized in a tweet two days later.{{cite tweet|number=1087443815269584897|user=karaswisher|title=I was a complete dolt to put up this...|date=January 21, 2019}}

In 2021 and 2023, Swisher hosted the official companion podcast for the third and fourth seasons of HBO's TV series Succession.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hbo.com/succession/hbos-succession-podcast|title=Succession - HBO's Succession Podcast}} In 2024, she received criticism for her book “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story," with critics saying that it was "anti-worker."{{Cite web |last=Council |first=Stephen |date=April 4, 2024 |title=Famed journalist Kara Swisher's book reflects Bay Area tech's huge anti-worker problem |url=https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/kara-swisher-workers-altman-book-18929472.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404000821/https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/kara-swisher-workers-altman-book-18929472.php |archive-date=April 4, 2024 |access-date=2024-06-13 }}

Plan to Run for Mayor of San Francisco

In 2016, she announced that she planned to run for mayor of San Francisco as a Democrat in 2023. She 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 (and still dominates) San Francisco.{{Cite web |last=Townsend |first=Tess |title=Kara Swisher Is Serious About Running for Mayor, and Soon |url=https://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/kara-swisher-on-her-political-plans.html |website=Inc.}}{{cite news |last=Green |first=Emily |date=April 14, 2016 |title=Tech journalist Kara Swisher plans to run for San Francisco Mayor |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tech-journalist-Kara-Swisher-plans-to-run-for-San-7249640.php |access-date=23 October 2016 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle}}

We all yammer about politicians and how bad things are, and I think it important that we stop bellyaching and act if we want change. Also this whole election cycle has struck a chord in me that I have always thought about, related to professional politicians and how we need to shift thinking about who should serve and the duty of citizens to be, you know, citizens. There is an important and necessary role for good government and I hate this wholesale tearing down of it. Also the increasing divide between tech sector and the city is something that I think a lot about. Not that I have solutions as yet.{{Cite web |date=2016-04-15 |title=Tech Writer Kara Swisher Announces Plan To Run For SF Mayor... In Seven Years: SFist |url=https://sfist.com/2016/04/15/tech_journo_kara_swisher_announces/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports |language=en |archive-date=December 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241221171414/https://sfist.com/2016/04/15/tech_journo_kara_swisher_announces/ |url-status=dead }}

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.{{cite magazine|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/07/kara-swisher-silicon-valleys-most-powerful-snoop.html |title=Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? |first=Benjamin |last=Wallace |magazine=New York |date=15 July 2014}}{{cite magazine|last1=Swisher|first1=Kara|date=10 November 2008|title=My Four Weddings. How getting gay married became an Olympic sport for me|magazine=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/my-four-weddings/|access-date=29 September 2023}} They had an additional legal wedding ceremony in 2003 in Niagara Falls, Canada, in 2004 as part of the San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings, and another in San Francisco in November 2008 in advance of California Proposition 8, which declared same-sex marriages invalid in California.{{r|Swisher 2008}} Swisher and Smith had two sons, Louis and Alexander.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/10/15/223351/megan-smith-86-sm-88/|title=Megan Smith '86, SM '88: Pioneering change from PlanetOut to Google Earth|last=McCluskey|first=Eileen|date=15 October 2007 |magazine=MIT Technology Review|issn=1099-274X |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55393763.html |title=PlanetOut CEO taps gay market Exec becomes power player in elusive $450B industry|last=Hopkins|first=Jim|date=June 21, 2000|work=USA Today|page=7B|access-date=1 June 2012}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite news|last=Schubarth |first=Cromwell |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2011/09/16/google-working-on-social-news-reader.html|title=Google working on social, news reader|date=September 16, 2011|work=San Jose Business Journal}}{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-tribune/obituary.aspx?pid=155622033 |title=Susan Ann Ventre |type=Obituary |work=Scranton Times |via=Legacy.com |date=24 January 2012}} They separated in 2014,{{r|Wallace 2014}} and were divorced {{as of|2017|lc=y}}.{{cite web|last=Swisher |first=Kara |date=2017 |url=http://www.recode.net/authors/kara-swisher|title=Kara Swisher Biography and Ethics Statement|publisher=re/code|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230150413/https://www.recode.net/authors/kara-swisher |archive-date=30 December 2017}} Swisher married Amanda Katz on October 3, 2020, with whom she had two children.{{Cite magazine|last1=Sherman|first1=Jake|last2=Palmer|first2=Anna|last3=Ross|first3=Garrett|last4=Okun|first4=Eli|title=Weekend Wedding |department=Playbook PM|url=https://politi.co/2GyOCKT|access-date=2021-06-03|magazine=Politico|date=October 6, 2020}}

In 2011, Swisher suffered a "mini-stroke" while on a flight to Hong Kong where she was soon hospitalized and put on anticoagulant medication. She wrote about the experience in a remembrance of Luke Perry, after a stroke led to his death in 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://tim.blog/2018/06/21/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-kara-swisher/|title=The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Kara Swisher (#218)|first=Tim|last=Ferriss|date=June 21, 2018|website=The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss}}Nicholas Carlson, [https://www.businessinsider.com/kara-swisher-suffered-a-mini-stroke-but-she-seems-to-be-ok-2011-10 Kara Swisher Suffered A "Mini-Stroke," But She Seems To Be OK] Oct 19, 2011 businessinsider.com{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/luke-perry-90210-stroke.html|title=Opinion | Luke Perry Had a Stroke and Died. I Had One and Lived.|first=Kara|last=Swisher|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 5, 2019}}

Swisher is known for wearing dark aviator sunglasses even while indoors, explaining "I have light sensitivity a little; I just don’t like bright lights."{{Cite web|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/07/kara-swisher-silicon-valleys-most-powerful-snoop.html|title=Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work?|website=Intelligencer|date=July 15, 2014 }} She grew up Catholic and identifies as agnostic.{{Cite web|url=https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot|title=Apple goes 5G, the Feds want to break up Google Chrome, and Fareed Zakaria on lessons from 2020.|website=Pivot--Voxmedia Podcast Network|date=October 13, 2020}}

• aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web. New York: Random House International, 1999. {{ISBN|9780812931914}}, {{OCLC|313499003}}
• Kara Swisher and Lisa Dickey, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003. {{ISBN|9781400049646}}, {{OCLC|58726021}}
• Burn Book: A Tech Love Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2024. {{ISBN|9781982163891}}, {{OCLC|1393241009}}

• 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Blogging for "Liveblogging Yahoo Earnings Calls in 2010 (They're Funny!)"{{Cite web |url=https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2011/loeb-award-winners |title=Loeb Award Winners |date=June 28, 2011 |website=UCLA Anderson School of Management |access-date=February 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042854/https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2011/loeb-award-winners |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |url-status=dead }}
• 2020 Fast Company Queer 50{{Cite web|last=Kelly|first=Adam|date=2020-05-28|title=Announcing Fast Company's first-ever Queer 50 list|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90471874/fast-company-queer-50-2020|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Fast Company|language=en-US}}
• 2021 Fast Company Queer 50{{Cite web|title=Announcing Fast Company's second annual Queer 50 list|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/queer-50/2021|access-date=2021-06-03|website=Fast Company|language=en-US}}
• 2021 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elected member{{Cite web|title=Ms. Swisher|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/kara-swisher|access-date=2023-02-08|website=AMACAD.org|language=en-US}}

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