Dan Costa (journalist)

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Dan Costa
OccupationEditor, 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]

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Biography

He works in PC Labs [3] surrounded by incredibly smart editors and unbelievably cool products. Although primarily a writer, he also tweets, photographs, broadcasts (NBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox), [4] [5] [6] [7] presents, consults, and cooks.

Speaker and author

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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References

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  2. "Business Wire". July 12, 2011.
  3. "Inside PC Labs".
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  8. "Al Jazeera America". July 29, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01.
  9. "Engage Live Blog – The Frontier Project".
  10. Costa, Dan (1994). Home office computing handbook . Windcrest/McGraw-Hill. ISBN   0070300194.
  11. Costa, Dan (2002). In the Shadow of the Towers . iUniverse. ISBN   0595243681.