Philip Elmer-DeWitt
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt (born September 8, 1949) is an American writer and editor. He was Time 's first computer writer and produced much of the magazine's early coverage of personal computers and the Internet. After 27 years with TIME, including 12 as its science editor [1], he joined Business 2.0 as that magazine's executive editor. With the demise of Business 2.0 eight months later, he moved to Fortune magazine as a senior editor.
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[edit] Background
Elmer-DeWitt was born in Boston and raised on Moon Hill Rd. in Lexington, Massachusetts. He graduated from Oberlin College and studied English literature at the University of California, Berkeley and journalism at Columbia University. He worked as a computer programmer and technical writer for Bolt Beranek and Newman in the late '60s, wrote mathematical games for McGraw-Hill in the early 1970s and copy-edited textbooks and scientific monographs for Academic Press in the late '70s.
[edit] Career highlights
Elmer-DeWitt joined TIME in 1979 and wrote nearly 500 stories for the magazine, including a dozen cover stories. He launched two sections -- Computers and Technology -- before being made a senior editor. As science editor he produced more than 150 cover stories, including the issues that named AIDS researcher David Ho Time's 1996 Man of the Year and Albert Einstein the Person of the Century. His interviews include Steve Jobs [2], Bill Gates [3], William Gibson [4], Elmore Leonard [5] and Anita Roddick [6]. He was also the author of the controversial Cyberporn cover story (see Marty Rimm).
He helped start time.com [7], and organized TIME -sponsored scientific conferences on genetics [8] (2003), obesity [9] (2004) and global health [10] (2005).
In January 2007, he joined Josh Quittner at Business 2.0, another Time Inc. publication, and launched a blog called Apple 2.0: Mac news from outside the reality distortion field. When Time Inc. folded Business 2.0 in September 2007, he and Quittner were picked up by Fortune magazine, along with eight other former Business 2.0 staffers, to expand Fortune's technology coverage in print and on the Web. [11]
[edit] Select works from Time
- The Rio Earth Summit [12]
- Sex in America [13]
- Obesity [14]
- Infertility [15]
- Bards of the Net [16]
- Microsoft [17]
- The Internet [18], [19]
