Andrew Leonard

Andrew Leonard
Born 1962 (age 53–54)
Occupation Journalist
Relatives John Leonard (father)

Andrew Leonard (born 1962) is an American journalist who writes features articles for San Francisco and contributes to Medium. He previously wrote for Salon.com between 1995 and 2014.[1] His topics were technology, business, Internet culture, science fiction, and economics, among other topics.

Career

Leonard is known for his business and technology writing for Salon,[2] and is credited with coining the term "open-source journalism".[3] He has also written for Wired.[4]

Leonard is the author of a book, Bots: The Origin of New Species, which the New York Times called a "playful social history of the internet".[5] According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, also writing in the Times, the book is "deceptively profound".[4] Bots was one of the first few books published by Wired's nonfiction publishing venture HardWired, launched in 1996.[6]

For six years[7] as a financial analyst for Salon.com,[8] Leonard wrote a blog, How the World Works, covering topics such as speculation in the oil market,[9] the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act,[10] and immigration reform.[11]

Leonard has written extensively on Internet culture[12] and science fiction.[13][14] His work includes a series of articles which identified a pseudonymous Wikipedia editor as novelist Robert Clark Young.[15]

Leonard is the son of John Leonard, an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic.[16]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ Leonard, Andrew (14 September 2014). "How I switched sides in the technology wars". Salon. Salon Media Group.
  2. ↑ Peele, Robbi (April 1, 2010). "People Are Turning to the Better-Than-Ever Salon.com More Than Ever Before". Business Wire.(subscription required)
  3. ↑ Lievrouw, Leah (2011). Alternative and Activist New Media. Polity. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-7456-4183-6. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  4. 1 2 Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (October 8, 1997). "Author Traces the Family Tree of Software Bots". Orlando Sentinel (reprinted from the New York Times).(subscription required)
  5. ↑ Biersdorfer, J. D. (August 10, 1997). "Virtual Bedlam". New York Times.
  6. ↑ Huffstutter, P.J. (September 16, 1996). "WIRED Magazine, Harpercollins Push Publishing to Digital Edge". Daily News of Los Angeles.(subscription required)
  7. ↑ Leonard, Andrew (May 31, 2013). "My Wikipedia hall of mirrors". Salon.com. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
  8. ↑ Olive, David (June 11, 2011). "What keeps Wall Street miscreants out of jail?". Toronto Star.(subscription required)
  9. ↑ Mitchell, Dan (June 21, 2008). "Fake Gems, Genuine Appeal". New York Times. p. C5.
  10. ↑ Mitchell, Dan (September 15, 2007). "Broke but Still Borrowing". New York Times. p. C5.
  11. ↑ Mitchell, Dan (April 1, 2006). "An Open Mind on Open Borders". New York Times. p. C5.
  12. ↑ Leonard, Andrew (1999-09-10), The Cybercommunist Manifesto, Salon.com, retrieved 2012-11-01
  13. ↑ Leonard, Andrew (July 3, 1997). "Who Owns Xena". Salon. Archived from the original on 2008-04-02. Retrieved 2008-05-02.
  14. ↑ Leonard, Andrew (21 April 2004). "Pirates! Calculus! Banking! Alchemy!". Salon.com. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
  15. ↑ Nichols, Martha; Berry, Lorraine (May 20, 2013). "What Should We Do About Wikipedia?". Talking Writing. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  16. ↑ Miller, Laura (November 7, 2008). "Remembering John Leonard". Salon.com. Retrieved May 31, 2013.

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