An award-winning business and technology journalist with 15 years experience at high-profile media organizations and a proven track record as an editor and team leader.

He is currently a freelance tech correspondent for CBS News. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at CNET News, where he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, social media, VR and video games. He also served as Executive Editor in charge of West Coast news operations, and a tech expert for national and international radio and TV programs.

Before that, he wrote about consumer technology from The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau, covering everything from video games to smartphones and computers made by Apple, Dell and H-P. He’s also covered microchip companies and the retail sector for Reuters News in its San Francisco and Chicago bureaus.

A Silicon Valley native, he’s long been a technology buff. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and earned a master’s degree from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.