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Joanna Stern
Stern in 2022
Born
Joanna Ruth Stern

(1984-12-05) December 5, 1984 (age 41)
EducationUnion College (BA)
Years active2006–present
Spouse
Michelle Katharine Barna
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(m. 2014)​

Joanna Stern (born December 5, 1984)[1] is an American technology journalist known for her videos and columns at The Wall Street Journal and technology news websites Engadget and The Verge. She became a personal technology columnist[2] at The Wall Street Journal in 2014, as part of the team that replaced Walt Mossberg.[3] She left the Journal in 2026 and launched The New Things, a tech journalism company that produces newsletters and YouTube videos. She also has a partnership with NBC News, which publishes and broadcasts her work from The New Things.[4][5][6]

Education

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Stern graduated from Union College in 2006, where she studied political science and journalism. She served as the editor in chief of the Concordiensis, Union's student newspaper.

Career

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Stern began her technology writing career at Laptop Magazine, where she reviewed laptops and netbooks.[7] She then spent three years at Engadget, as reviews editor, writing various consumer technology reviews. In March 2011, she left Engadget with Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, Chris Ziegler and other co-workers to create This Is My Next,[8] which would later become The Verge.

In February 2012, Stern joined ABC News as a technology editor,[9] hosting her own video series and appearing on the TV network's various shows as a technology expert. In December 2013, she and Geoffrey A. Fowler were named personal technology columnists at The Wall Street Journal.[10]

In 2016, Stern received a Gerald Loeb Award[11] for her Wall Street Journal videos, including her video review of the Apple Watch (which includes a cameo appearance by Rupert Murdoch)[12] and another where she "rode" on a router that had a shape like a spaceship.[13] She is also a CNBC contributor,[14] often appearing on Tech Check.[15] In September 2021, she won a News & Documentary Emmy Award[16] for her Wall Street Journal documentary on death and technology.[17] Stern received a second Gerald Loeb Award in 2022 for an article on TikTok.[18][19]

I Am Not a Robot

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Stern is the author of I Am Not a Robot, an account of her use of AI and robots for one year. She used AI programs and hardware for health advice, housecleaning, driving and mental health therapy. She also had an AI boyfriend. “It’s the reality already starting to arrive for all of us,” she wrote in the book. “I just happened to live it first.”[5] [20]

The book was praised in The New Yorker by Joshua Rothman, who wrote that Stern "is exactly the sort of writer you want to read on the question of how useful A.I. can be in real life. She’s made a career out of being a normal person who knows a lot about technology but never gets carried away by sci-fi fantasies."[21]

Publishers Weekly said "Stern’s balanced, clear-eyed assessments and crisp, funny prose make this stand out among the growing crowd of books on AI."[22]

Personal life

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Stern was born to Susan Stern and Daniel Stern, the former the owner of a lecture agency.[23]

In February 2009, Stern met her wife on Twitter and the couple married in 2014.[23] They live in Jersey City with their children. She has written an article that jokingly names their dog as a co-author.[24] Stern is Jewish.[25]

References

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  1. ↑ @JoannaStern (November 23, 2020). "@KenFromChicago LOL. Also, someone needs to correct this for the entire internet: I was born in 1984!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ↑ "Joanna Stern — Senior Personal Technology Columnist at The Wall Street Journal". WSJ. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  3. ↑ "WSJ names Mossberg's replacements – Talking Biz News". talkingbiznews.com. December 16, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  4. ↑ Stern, Joanna (February 6, 2026). "I'm Signing Off From This Column After 12 Years. Here's What's Changed in Tech". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
  5. 1 2 Cocozza, Paula (June 4, 2026). "My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved August 8, 2026.
  6. ↑ "NBC News Author Joanna Stern". NBC News. Retrieved August 8, 2026.
  7. ↑ Stern, Joanna (May 12, 2009). "Dear Della, Sexism Doesn't Sell Laptops". Laptop Magazine. Retrieved October 25, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Former Engadget team headed for new tech site". CNET. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  9. ↑ "The Verge Is Losing A Founding Member To ABC News". Business Insider. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  10. ↑ Fitzgerald, Brian R. (December 16, 2013). "WSJ Announces Personal Tech Reviewing Team". WSJ. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  11. ↑ Daillak, Jonathan. "UCLA Anderson School honors 2016 Gerald Loeb Award winners". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  12. ↑ Stern, Joanna (April 8, 2015). "Apple Watch: What Living With It Is Really Like". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
  13. ↑ Stern, Joanna (February 3, 2015). "How to Improve Your Home Wi-Fi". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Joanna Stern". CNBC. September 27, 2019. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
  15. ↑ "CNBC Search : Find stock quotes, news, videos and more". CNBC. May 3, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
  16. ↑ "42nd Annual News & Documentary Nominations – The Emmys". theemmys.tv. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
  17. ↑ @newsemmys (September 29, 2021). "The #NewsEmmys Award for Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage goes to "E-ternal: A Tech Quest…" (Tweet). Retrieved October 29, 2021 – via Twitter.
  18. ↑ Daillak, Jonathan (September 30, 2022). "Winners of the 2022 Gerald Loeb Awards Announced by UCLA Anderson at New York City Event" (Press release). UCLA Anderson School of Management. PR Newswire.
  19. ↑ WSJ Staff (July 21, 2021). "Inside TikTok's Algorithm: A WSJ Video Investigation". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  20. ↑ Stern, Joanna (2026). I Am Not a Robot. Harper (published May 12, 2026). ISBN 978-0063446618.
  21. ↑ Rothman, Joshua (May 29, 2026). "What Happens When A.I. Becomes a Part of Everything?". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved August 8, 2026.
  22. ↑ "I Am Not a Robot: My Year of Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything by undefined". www.publishersweekly.com. May 2026. Retrieved August 8, 2026.
  23. 1 2 Mallozzi, Vincent M. (September 14, 2014). "A Spark Ignited on Twitter". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  24. ↑ Stern, Joanna; Barna-Stern, Browser (December 13, 2016). "The Dumb, Delightful World of Pet Tech". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  25. ↑ @JoannaStern (December 11, 2019). "As a Jewish resident of Jersey City and, you know, of the United States of America, I'm frightened and sickened" (Tweet). Retrieved September 2, 2021 – via Twitter.
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