Journalism

How a breakthrough paper from a Turkish information scientist wound up as a demonstration of how China competes in the global tech market. A finalist for the Loeb award for best business journalism.

An exclusive look at Apple’s new headquarters, which was Steve Jobs’ last great project. My tour guides were Jony Ive, Tim Cook, and architect Norman Foster.

In 2007, I broke the news about Amazon’s Kindle and speculated about the future of reading.

In 1978, my editor at New Jersey Monthly asked me to find Albert Einstein’s brain. I hadn’t known it was missing! But it had been removed from his corpse in 1955 and that was the last anyone had heard of it. Until my story.

In 1984, I wrote what became a celebrated piece on how a digtial tool can not only speed one’s work, but shape an economy and become a way of life. The story originally appeared in Harper’s and I reprinted it when I was at Backchannel.

In 1983 I met Steve Jobs and his amazing band of pirates as they prepped the Macintosh for its debut. This was the beginning of a long relationship with Jobs, which fully flowered during my tenure at Newsweek and after.

In 2007, I was one of four reviewers in the world who got to take a pre-release iPhone through its paces. I was impressed! I also noted correctly that things would get really good when Apple allowed outside developers to create apps that ran native on the hardware.