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Dan Costa | |
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| Occupation(s) | Editor, journalist |
| Known for | PC Magazine |
Dan Costa is an American journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of PC Magazine and the SVP of Content for Ziff Davis, which includes Geek.com, Extreme.com and ComputerShopper.com. [1] [2]
He works in PC Labs [3] . Although primarily a writer, he also tweets, photographs, broadcasts (NBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox), [4] [5] [6] [7] presents, consults, and cooks.
Dan makes frequent appearances on local, national, and international news programs, including CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, NBC, [4] [5] [6] and Al Jazeera America [8] where he shares his perspective on a variety of technology trends. He also speaks at a number of private events for Fortune 500 clients. [9] Dan does a weekly segment on iHeart Media's Rover's Morning Glory called Tech Tuesday.
He has edited two books: The Home Office Computing Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1994) [10] and In the Shadow of the Towers (iUniverse, 2002). [11]
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