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About Larry Magid
Larry is known as both a technology journalist and an Internet safety advocate. A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for more than two decades, Larry Magid contributes to CBS News, the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and other media outlets. He served for 18 years as a technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times and his columns have also appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, 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 KCBS in San Francisco and he can be seen occasionally on CBS Evening News and local TV news stations. His columns and reviews also appear on CBSNews.com. He has been a commentator National Public Radio's All Things Considered and 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 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. An Internet safety advocate, Larry is founder of SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com and is co-director of BlogSafety.com. He 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 on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Larry is the author of the safety guide on the GetNetWise.Org child safety web site and a member of the advisory boards of both GetNetWise and Family Online Safety Institute. Larry's newest book is MySpace Unraveled: A parents guide to teen social networkng, coauthored with Anne Collier. He also wrote 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 and co-director of BlogSafety.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. 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. Email: :
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