Spencer Reiss

Spencer Reiss (born 1952 in New York) is a former Newsweek foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America, now a contributing editor at Wired magazine.[1][2][3][4] He began working for Wired as a senior editor in San Francisco in 1996.[1] He is responsible for covering energy issues, new media, commercial space travel, and the impact technology is having on humans. He is also a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and MIT Technology Review.[2] Reiss also directed the program for the annual Monaco Media Forum held in Monte Carlo.[5]

Spencer Reiss at Monaco Media Forum 2008

In 1995, as managing editor of the pioneering Internet project "24 Hours in Cyberspace," Reiss commissioned John Perry Barlow to write the celebrated Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.[6] More recently he directs the program for Business Insider's annual IGNITION conference in New York City.[7] He is also master of ceremonies at Viva Technology[8], a global startup & innovation conference held annually in June in Paris.[9]

Personal

Reiss obtained degrees from Dartmouth College (A.B., History) and Columbia University (M.S., Journalism).[10] He now lives in Salisbury, Connecticut United States.[11]

References
  1. "SpeakerOverlay". Forrester. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  2. "Spencer Reiss". Edge. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. Michele Norris (26 July 2006). "The Ascendance of MySpace". NPR. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  4. David Armstrong (2 January 1996). "COMPUTERS IN THE '90S / LIFE IN CYBERSPACE / The Human Face of Cyberspace SEE SIDEBAR: Cyber-Adventures Wanted". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  5. "Spencer Reiss". Web Summit. Archived from the original on 8 March 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  6. https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/march-april-2006-can-we-know-everything/cyberspace-still-anti-sovereign
  7. "Spencer Reiss and Advisory Board of Digital Gurus Join IGNITION 2013".
  8. Viva Technology
  9. http://www.terasrl.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/PARIGI.pdf
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2011-10-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. Wired https://www.wired.com/wiredbizprogram/aboutdisruptive.html#reiss. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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