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About Larry Magid
A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for two decades, Larry Magid contributes to CBS News, the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report and other publications. He served for many years as a technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times and his columns have also appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, CNN.COM and numerous other newspapers and websites throughout the world. His technology reports can now be heard several times a week on CBS Network and CBS affiliates throughout the United States and daily on KNX (CBS) in Los Angeles and KCBS in San Francisco. San Francisco TV viewers can see him on CBS 5 Eyewitness News. His columns and reviews also appear on CBSNews.com. As an incentive to stay in shape, he also writes a weekly fitness column for the Palo Alto Daily News and maintains the web site NoBellyPrize.com He is a commentator for Public Radio International's Sound Money program. In the United Kingdom he can be heard during morning drive on LBC Radio -- London's most popular news/talk station. 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, NPR's All Things Considered and many other programs. He has also written for Fortune, ForbesASAP, Family Circle, PC World, PC Magazine, Upside, Information Week, Modern Maturity, ComputerWorld and numerous other publications. 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). He is also the host of three popular web sites :PCAnswer.com, SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com. Larry served as editor during the early days at PC magazine and was co-founder of Know How, one of the nation's first computer training companies. He has served as a commentator for CNN’s Computer Connection and as on air analyst and Managing Editor of The Computer Show, a syndicated television program. He has also made numerous appearances on TechTV. Larry is on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and is the 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 in 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. Magid is the author of Child Safety on the Information Highway and Teen Safety on the Information Highway, free booklets from National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that have helped millions of families understand how to safely navigate cyberspace. He is also author of the safety guide on the GetNetWise.Org child safety web site. In an earlier life he was editor/publisher of EdCentric, a leading international journal of educational reform and served as director of the National Student Association's Center for Educational Reform. 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. To book Larry for a speech or interview: Click Here.
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