About Larry Magid

Larry Magid is the founder of SafeKids.com, SafeTeens.com and BlogSafety.com.  He is also author of Child Safety on the Information Highway and Teen Safety on the Information Highway, popular booklets from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children which been distributed to millions of families worldwide. Magid also serves on the Board of the Nat'l Center and advises the Center on Internet safety issues.  He is he recipient of that organization's "Ten Year Anniversary Award" for his work in developing a system for finding missing children via online services. Time magazine called Magid and his colleagues "high tech heroes" for that work. Magid's web sites, SafeKids.Com and SafeTeens.Com were selected as Laureates for  the prestigious Computerworld/Smithonian award.  Larry also works closely with Childnet International, a London-based organization that promotes the safe use of the Internet by children around the world.

He is also a journalist, serving as technology analyst for CBS News and, for 18 years, a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times.  He currently writes for CBSNews.com, the New York Times and the Palo Alto Daily News.

He has been a commentator National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Public Radio International's Sound Money program. Larry has made repeat appearances on The Larry King Show, CBS This Morning, NBC's Today Show, NPR’s Talk of the Nation Science Friday, CBS Weekend Roundup and many other programs.

He is the author of several books including The Little PC Book (now in its 4th edition), a critically acclaimed best seller, The Little Quicken Book, Cruising Online: Larry Magid's Guide to the New Digital Highways (Random House, 1994), The Fully Powered PC (Simon and Schuster, 1984) and "Electronic Link: Using the IBM PC to Communicate" (John Wiley and Sons, 1983).

Larry doesn't play a doctor on TV but he does have a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor's degree from University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts and the Boston University School of Communications. 

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