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Dan Ackerman

Editor-In-Chief
Gizmodo

Dan Ackerman is a former radio DJ turned journalist, and currently Editor-in-Chief of noted tech news and reviews website Gizmodo. Prior to that, he was a long-time Editorial director at CNET, leading a team covering personal technology, computers and gaming. Dan is also a regular TV talking head and long-time in-house tech expert on CBS Mornings.

Dan’s non-fiction business history book, The Tetris Effect (Hachette/PublicAffairs), covers a tangled web of software licensing deals in the Cold War Soviet Union, and has earned rave reviews from the New York Times (“The story shines”), Fortune, WIRED, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.

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