Bio

rm — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:06:00 +0000

I’ve been covering business, technology, finance, economics and science for more than 25 years at Business Week, US News & World Report, Wired, and Conde Nast Portfolio. I’ve also written stories for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company, Strategy + Business and other publications.

After graduating from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 1977, I spent a year as newspaper editor aboard the cruise ship Royal Viking Sky, traveling to more than 30 countries on five continents, from the USSR to Venezuela to French Polynesia.

I then worked at newspapers in Carbondale, Ill., Fort Lauderdale., Corvallis Ore. and Austin. In the early ’80s I spent an academic year as a Vannevar Bush fellow the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Starting in 1985 I spent ten years at Business Week in Detroit, Stamford, Ct., Minneapolis, Washington D.C. (where I had the Pentagon beat, taking me to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to cover the first Gulf War) and finally to San Francisco, where I was bureau manager at the start of the dot-com boom.

That led to two years as managing editor at Wired and two at US News & World Report as senior technology writer. I had a short ride on the dot-com gravy train at Red Hat software, then became executive editor and then editor in chief of Business 2.0 magazine.

Recently I spent two years as senior writer at the well-funded but ultimately doomed Conde Nast Portfolio.

Now I’m operating independently, mainly ghostwriting and editing business books and articles, while writing stories for magazines and for the Web. Recent work-related travel has taken me to China, Brazil, Switzerland, Mozambique and the United Arab Emirates.

I live in Berkeley, Ca., with my wife and 4-year-old daughter.

Russ Mitchell

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