Walt Mossberg

Interview

• "The Wall Street Journal on line" (Cannes-Milia 2/11/97)

Biography

Walt Mossberg was born in 1950 in Warwick, Rhode Island. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1969 and has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

He has been a reporter at the Wall Street Journal since 1970, and has spent most of that time in the Washington bureau covering national and international affairs. He created the Personal Technology column (http://www.ptech.wsj.com) of the WSJ in October, 1991 after almost three years as national security correspondent contributing to coverage of the liberation of Eastern Europe, the unification of Germany, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was also one of the paper's principal reporters on the Gulf War.

In the 1970's and 1980's he served as the newspaper's chief labour, energy, defence and international economics correspondent, and as its deputy Washington bureau chief.

In 1982 he began to be interested in computers.