Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher (born 1963) is an American technology journalist and co-founder of Recode. Previously she wrote for The Wall Street Journal, serving as co-executive editor of All Things Digital.

Swisher graduated from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a B.S. degree in 1984. She wrote for The Hoya, Georgetown's school newspaper. In 1985, she earned an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.

Swisher worked at an alternative newspaper in Washington, D.C. and The Washington Post, where she started as an intern and was later hired full-time.

Swisher joined The Wall Street Journal in 2003 and launched the AllThingsD conference and later expanded it into a website.

Swisher created and wrote Boom Town, a column which appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section and online. She subsequently appeared on founded and served as the co-executive editor with Walt Mossberg.

Swisher wrote on technology for the paper. During that period, she was cited as the most influential reporter covering the Internet by the Industry Standard magazine.

In partnership with her fellow Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, Swisher created, produced, and hosted the Journal's annual D: All Things Digital conference, in which top technology leaders, such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs appear on stage with or without prepared remarks, or slides, and are interviewed by the two columnists.

She is the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, published by Times Business Print Books in July 1998. The sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future, was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Print Books.

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