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Joanna Stern
Senior Personal Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Joanna Stern is senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal. There, she has spent two decades covering gadgets, apps, and new technologies with the goal of helping people make smarter tech decisions. Stern is an NBC and CNBC contributor and appears on national television and radio programs. Previously, she was the technology editor at ABC News and, before that, a reviewer and editor at The Verge technology news website. Stern’s documentary, E-Ternal: A Tech Quest to Live Forever, won the 2021 Emmy in the category of outstanding science, technology, or environmental coverage. She has also won two Gerald Loeb awards for her technology writing and videos.
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