- Josh Quittner
Joshua Quittner is an American journalist. Until September 2007, he was editor of
Time Inc. 's "Business 2.0 ", which he joined in April 2002 after seven years at "Time Magazine ", where he served as technology editor and the editor of its spinoff technology supplement "Time Digital " (later called "ON Magazine "). After Business 2.0, he served briefly as an executive editor atFortune Magazine , working out of its San Francisco bureau, before rejoining Time in April 2008 as an editor-at-large.While a newspaper reporter at "
Newsday " in the early 1990s, Quittner freelanced for "Wired Magazine " and was the original domain-name holder of mcdonalds.com, which he registered for an early "Wired" piece on domain-name squatting.He was also twice editor of Time.com. He joined "Time" in 1995 as a staff writer covering the Internet but subsequently went to work for
Pathfinder , Time Inc.'s first independent online presence, where he launched the "Netly News", one of the Net's first daily news feeds. He briefly revived "Netly News" as the name of a Business 2.0 blog. He also owns the domain name roofmagazine.com, which currently features [http://roofmagazine.blogspot.com/ Roof] , a sporadically updated real-estate blog.He is the co-author with wife
Michelle Slatalla of five books, including the non-fiction "Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace" (Harper-Collins, 1995).He currently lives in
Mill Valley, CA with his wife, three children--Zoe, Ella, and Clementine--and a dog, Otto.External links
* [http://www.time.com/time/columnist/quittner/bio.html Josh Quittner biography] ,
Time Magazine
* [http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-industry-moves-josh-quittner-comes-full-circle-returns-to-time-will-blo/ PaidContent article on Quittner rejoining Time]
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