Tom Watson (journalist)
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Tom Watson is an American journalist, entrepreneur and blogger.
Watson is the author CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008), and managing partner of CauseWired Communications, a consulting company he co-founded. Previously, he co-founded national philanthropic services company Changing Our World, Inc. At Changing Our World, Watson created onPhilanthropy, an online resource for philanthropy professionals; he often comments on and writes frequently about the intersection of media and philanthropy. In recent years he has served as a board member of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, where he helped to create the popular DMIblog, and the New York Software Industry Association
.
Watson was the founder and editor of newcritics, an online journal of media and arts criticism launched in January, 2007 and shuttered in June, 2009.
Watson was co-founder and co-editor with Jason Chervokas
of @NY, the pioneering Internet
news and information service that has chronicled New York
’s technology sector - Silicon Alley
- since 1995. The company was acquired by Internet.com in April 1999.
Watson began his career as a reporter and later executive editor of The Riverdale Press, a Pulitzer Prize
-winning newspaper in the Bronx, where he covered politics, and won more than a dozen state and national awards for excellence in journalism. The paper won national acclaim during his tenure for not missing an issue after terrorists linked to Iran
destroyed the newspaper's offices with firebombs. Watson received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University
.
Watson is the author CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008), and managing partner of CauseWired Communications, a consulting company he co-founded. Previously, he co-founded national philanthropic services company Changing Our World, Inc. At Changing Our World, Watson created onPhilanthropy, an online resource for philanthropy professionals; he often comments on and writes frequently about the intersection of media and philanthropy. In recent years he has served as a board member of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, where he helped to create the popular DMIblog, and the New York Software Industry Association
New York Software Industry Association
The New York Software Industry Association is a trade association for software, information technology, and Web development companies in the New York City area...
.
Watson was the founder and editor of newcritics, an online journal of media and arts criticism launched in January, 2007 and shuttered in June, 2009.
Watson was co-founder and co-editor with Jason Chervokas
Jason Chervokas
Jason Chervokas is a veteran journalist, writer, commentator, entrepreneur and musician. He co-founded @NY in 1995 with Tom Watson, a pioneering Internet publishing venture and the first publication to chronicle Silicon Alley, and is the author of the Uniform Hieroglyphic blog, and the creator of...
of @NY, the pioneering Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
news and information service that has chronicled New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
’s technology sector - Silicon Alley
Silicon Alley
Silicon Alley is a nickname for an area with a concentration of Internet and new media companies in Manhattan, New York City. Originally, the term referred to the cluster of such companies extending from the Flatiron District down to SoHo and TriBeCa along the Broadway corridor, but as the location...
- since 1995. The company was acquired by Internet.com in April 1999.
Watson began his career as a reporter and later executive editor of The Riverdale Press, a Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning newspaper in the Bronx, where he covered politics, and won more than a dozen state and national awards for excellence in journalism. The paper won national acclaim during his tenure for not missing an issue after terrorists linked to Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
destroyed the newspaper's offices with firebombs. Watson received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
.