Denise Caruso

Denise Caruso
Born	1956
Alma mater	California Polytechnic State University
Occupation	Journalist, Founder of The Hybrid Vigor Institute, Senior Research Scholar in Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Denise Caruso (born in 1956) is an American journalist and analyst specializing in the industries of digital technology and biotechnology. She was dubbed “the Walter Winchell of Silicon Valley” by WIRED magazine. She is the Founder and Executive Director of The Hybrid Vigor Institute, a non-profit think tank created in 2000 that emphasizes cross-sector collaboration.

She currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Caruso earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.

Caruso is the author of Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet. The book was awarded a silver medal at the 2007 Independent Publishers Book Awards for science writing, and was on Strategy+Business magazine’s “Best Business Books of 2007” list.

Caruso began her career as a technology journalist reporting for two trade publications; in 1984, she was a columnist for InfoWorld, and in 1985, she was the West Coast Editor at Electronics.

In the 1990s, Caruso was a founding editor of “Digital Media: A Seybold Report,” a digital monthly newsletter published by the Ziff Davis-owned Seybold Publications; a columnist for The San Francisco Examiner's Sunday Technology section; and a writer for the Digital Commerce column for the Monday Information Industries section of The New York Times. In 2007, she wrote the "Re:framing" column for the Sunday Business section of The New York Times.

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