Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher (born 1963) is an American technology business journalist and co-founder of Recode. Previously she wrote for The Wall Street Journal, serving as co-executive editor of All Things Digital. 2Early life Swisher went to Princeton Day School from 1976 - 1980. She 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. 2Career 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. 3Wall Street Journal Swisher joined The Wall Street Journal in 1997, working from its bureau in San Francisco. She created and wrote Boom Town, a column devoted to the companies, personalities and culture of Silicon Valley which appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section and online. During that period, she was cited as the most influential reporter covering the Internet by the Industry Standard magazin