Josh Quittner

Who is Josh Quittner?

Josh Quittner is an American journalist.

Born in Manhattan, Quittner grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Grinnell College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is married to Michelle Slatalla and has three daughters. He has co-authored five books with his wife, including Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace about the New York based hacker group Masters of Deception, Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How it Challenged Microsoft, Mother's Day, Flame War: A Cyberthriller, and Shoofly Pie to Die.

Quittner spent the first twelve years of his career as a newspaper reporter. He was a crime reporter and a general assignment writer before he started to write about technology from the consumer side at Newsday in 1992. Quittner then freelanced for Wired Magazine and was the original domain-name holder of mcdonalds.com, which he registered for an early Wired piece on domain-name squatting. Quittner also freelanced for the webzine HotWired, which ran his manifesto of the "Info Revolution" titled "The Birth of Way New Journalism," a riff on New Journalism that "became an instant cliché."