David Pogue
David Pogue was the New York Times weekly tech columnist from 2000 to 2013. He’s a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on “CBS Sunday Morning,” a New York Times bestselling author, a five-time TED speaker, host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS, and creator/host of the award-winning CBS News podcast “Unsung Science.”He’s written or cowritten more than 120 books, including dozens in the “Missing Manual” tech series, which he created in 1999; six books in the “For Dummies” line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); two novels (one for middle-schoolers); his three bestselling “Pogue’s Basics” books of tips and shortcuts (on Tech, Money, and Life); and his 2021 magnum opus, “How to Prepare for Climate Change.”
After graduating summa cum laude from Yale in 1985 with distinction in music, Pogue spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. He has won a Loeb Award for journalism, two Webby awards, and an honorary doctorate in music. He lives with his wife Nicki and their blended brood of five spectacular children in Connecticut and San Francisco. Learn more about him at https://davidpogue.com/ and in the Intercom article “A Renaissance Technical Communicator: A Conversation with David Pogue“
