Walt Mossberg

Walt Mossberg

@waltmossberg.bsky.social

Now: News Literacy Project. Then: WSJ tech columnist, AllThingsD, Recode, D & Code conferences, Verge, CTRL-WALT-DELETE. Opinions are purely personal.

36,986 Followers 2,215 Following 216 Posts Joined May 2023
3 days ago

I did check on Apple podcasts and you’re absolutely right. For some reason, the last few minutes are cut off. Not just the standing ovation but the last question and answer. I’m sure it’s a mistake, not something deliberate. I’ll look into it.

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5 days ago

I haven’t looked at it in a long while, but it was never on YouTube. It was originally on iTunes and then on Apple podcasts. I’ll check it out.

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1 month ago

I think your new independent media venture is a great idea and I will be supporting you and rooting for you and subscribing as soon as it’s possible. I think anyone who cares about Tech should do the same. I know you’ll crush it.

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1 month ago

Joanna, you did a great job of protecting and nurturing the personal technology column at the journal, which I created and wrote for 22 years. You guided it into a new era which made it into even better while protecting the mission and the principles I followed. Thank you so much.

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4 months ago

In my long experience as a reviewer I found that almost no product was entirely great or entirely awful. Even the best ones had some drawbacks and I felt it was my job to point out the strengths and weaknesses. Nicole is doing her job and doing it well.

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5 months ago
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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

This is a terrific story about how Silicon Valley has drastically changed, written by the excellent veteran tech reporter Steven Levy. @stevenlevy.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/silico...

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7 months ago

One key job of the media is to tell truth to power. Not just journalists, but interviewers, comedians, artists and others. Stephen Colbert did that. This cancellation is political. It’s part of Paramount’s capitulation to Trump. My appetite for CBS and Paramount+ programming is now near zero.

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8 months ago

Not me. Not in Nevada or anywhere else.

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9 months ago
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23 years ago today, I made my best hiring decision ever and brought on Katie Boehret as my reporting assistant at The Wall Street Journal. She soon had her own tech column in the Journal, alongside mine. She also was on the original teams at the D & Code conferences and remains a close friends.

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9 months ago
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Billy Joel Announces Brain Disorder and Cancels All Concerts

Awful news. Billy Joel is one of the greatest singer/songwriters and stage performers in the last 50 years www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...

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10 months ago
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Happy Mother’s Day to my wonderful wife Edie Mossberg and my fabulous daughters in law, Arielle Mossberg and Shana Khader.

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10 months ago
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"The Gathering Storm": We Are About to Reap the Whirlwind “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29-18

Reaping the whirlwind in science and medicine. open.substack.com/pub/irashapi...

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10 months ago
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Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

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10 months ago
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Here’s the Minuteman statue in Lexington, MA, where the first shots were fired in the American Revolution 250
years ago this weekend. I urge all who can to visit the sacred ground of the national park that includes the initial battles.

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10 months ago
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APOLLO: “It normally takes 18 months on average for the US to negotiate a trade deal. .. While markets wait for trade negotiations with 90 countries at the same time, global trade is grinding to a standstill .. if current policies do not change, then the probability of a US recession in 2025 is 90%”

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10 months ago
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Today is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride from Boston. Along with others, he was dispatched to warn the patriots at Lexington and Concord that the British were coming to arrest their leaders. Today, we need millions of Paul Reveres to arouse our country to the threats to our freedoms.

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10 months ago
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Lessons from Lexington and Concord Donald Trump might be a greater threat to Americans’ liberty than King George III was 250 years ago.

Here’s a fascinating piece by the talented former journalist, John Walcott on how the beginnings of the American Revolution bear similarities to our situation today.

open.substack.com/pub/johnwalc...

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10 months ago
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

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10 months ago
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IRA My parents gave me an uncommon name.

Ira Shapiro was the chief trade negotiator with Japan and Canada during the Clinton administration. He knows what he’s talking about. This article is a must read.

open.substack.com/pub/irashapi...

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11 months ago

I’ll never believe the attack on Gov. Shapiro was anything other than antisemitism. Not Gaza, not Israel, but sheer hatred of Jews @petebuttigieg.bsky.social is absolutely right.

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11 months ago
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NYT page one:

@nytimes.com

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11 months ago

This is great!!

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11 months ago

Taylor Swift, poet:

“Time won’t fly,
It’s like I’m paralyzed by it.
I’d like to be my old self again,
But I’m still tryin’ to find it.”

— “All Too Well”, 2012 .

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11 months ago

Thanks. Very kind of you.

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11 months ago
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Saw this best guy ever guy named @waltmossberg.bsky.social for lunch

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11 months ago

Kara Swisher makes me proud every day. I’m lucky to call her my friend and to have partnered with her for more than 20 years. @karaswisher.bsky.social

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11 months ago
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LIVE: Cory Booker goes for floor speech RECORD YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

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11 months ago
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Seen enough. Impeach and remove. .

Senate expert Ira Shapiro argues for impeachment , though it’s a long shot, because the country can’t endure 19 more months until the midterms. open.substack.com/pub/irashapi...

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11 months ago

Good move by the EIC.

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11 months ago

Tom, having covered Microsoft closely for 27 years. I read your list carefully and its quite solid. That’s not a surprise given your own history of covering the company. People can quibble about some of the rankings, but I think you are pretty much right. Windows 95 deserved to be number one.

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