Journalist, lecturer, and consultant Tom Johnson draws from a 35-year career in journalism
that has taken him from the classroom to the newsroom and back. Johnson began using
computers to tease meaning out of data while a Ph.D. candidate in the early 1970s,
studying the impact of technology on urban spaces. By the early 1980s, he was writing
about dedicated word processing systems and covering the early stages of personal
computing in Silicon Valley for TIME and Popular Science. Johnson was a reporter
for Time Magazine in El Salvador in the mid-1980s, the start-up editor of MacWeek,
and a deputy editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is a Professor of Journalism
(Emeritus) at San Francisco State University and the founder and co-director of the
Institute for Analytic Journalism in Santa Fe. Tom will be speaking at 11:15 am and
1:30 pm on Saturday.
www.jtjohnson.com