Kara Swisher Biography
Kara Swisher is an American journalist. Since 1994, she has been covering the internet business. Swisher was a contributing editor at New York Magazine in 2023, as well as the host of the podcasts On with Kara Swisher and Pivot.
How old is Kara Swisher? – Age
She is 61 years old as of December 11 2021. She was born in 1962 in the United States.
Kara Swisher Family
Swisher lived at Roslyn Harbor, New York, until the death of her father when she was five years old. Later, her family relocated to Princeton, New Jersey, where she was raised. Swisher claimed in a 2021 interview with Bryan Elliott for Inc.’s Behind The Brand that as a child, she aspired to work in the military, military intelligence, or the CIA.
Kara Swisher Education
Swisher studied propaganda and earned a BS in literature and media from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) in Washington, D.C. in 1984. She graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1985 with a master’s degree. She also “spent some time” at Duke University studying deception and propaganda, which Swisher says were “always my area of study”.
Who is Kara Swisher’s wife? – Did Kara Swisher have a baby?
Swisher married engineer and technology executive Megan Smith in Marin County in 1999, back when same-sex marriage was illegal in California.
Kara Swisher Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Why does Kara Swisher wear sunglasses?
Swisher is noted for wearing dark aviator sunglasses indoors, stating that she has light sensitivity and dislikes bright lighting.
Kara Swisher Stroke
Swisher had a “mini-stroke” on a flight to Hong Kong in 2011, and was taken to the hospital and given anticoagulant medication. She wrote about the incident in commemoration of Luke Perry, who died in 2019 from a stroke.
Kara Swisher Podcasts
Swisher and Mossberg founded the San Francisco-based website Recode on January 1, 2014. In the spring of 2014, they hosted the first Code Conference near Los Angeles. Vox Media acquired the website in May 2015. A month later, in June 2015, they debuted Recode Decode, a weekly podcast in which Swisher interviews significant individuals in technology, with Stewart Butterfield serving as the inaugural guest.
In September 2018, Recode and Vox Media debuted Pivot, a semi-weekly news analysis podcast presented by Swisher and Scott Galloway. In April 2020, New York Magazine announced Pivot will be joining the magazine’s assets, so abandoning the Recode identity, and Swisher would also join as editor-at-large. Swisher announced on Twitter in May 2020 that she has not been editing or assigning content for Recode in several years.
In September 2020, the Times launched Sway, a semiweekly podcast hosted by Swisher on power and people who wield it, with Nancy Pelosi as her first guest. Other guests include 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 Monica Lewinsky, a social activist and celebrity. Swisher presented the official companion podcast for the third and fourth seasons of HBO’s television series Succession in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
Kara Swisher The Wall Street Journal
Swisher began working for The Wall Street Journal in 1997, from its San Francisco office. She founded and authored Boom Town, a column about Silicon Valley’s firms, characters, and culture that featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal’s Marketplace section as well as online. During that time, Industry Standard magazine named her the most prominent reporter covering the internet.
She co-founded the All Things Digital conference with her colleague Walt Mossberg in 2003, which eventually evolved into a daily blog named AllThingsD.com. Swisher and Mossberg conducted conversations with notable technology CEOs like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Ellison.
Kara Swisher Books
She wrote the book aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nail the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web, which was released by Times Business Print Books in July of 1998. The sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future, was released in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Print Books. She revealed in 2021 that she has signed a two-book autobiographical deal with Simon & Schuster. The first, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, debuted in February 2024.