Katherine Boehret

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Katherine Boehret
Born1980 (age 4344)
Occupation(s)Internal Communications, Amazon
Notable workFormer journalist and columnist, The Wall Street Journal (2002-2013)

Katherine A. Boehret (born 1980) works in internal communications for the Devices team at Amazon, an e-commerce and cloud-computing firm.

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Early life and education

A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Boehret is a graduate of the University of Delaware. In 2010, she was awarded that university's Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement.

Career

From 2002 through 2013, Boehret was a journalist and columnist at The Wall Street Journal , where she worked with technology columnist Walter Mossberg. Boehret authored "The Digital Solution" column, which appeared weekly in the newspaper and online. [1]

She was also a columnist and editor at the technology web sites All Things Digital and Recode , where she was deputy reviews editor and senior reviewer. [2] She was an original staff member of both sites and also of the D Conference. After Recode was sold to Vox Media in June 2015, Boehret served as a reviews editor at The Verge , until July 2016. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Boehret, Katherine. "You've Come a Long Way, Silicon Valley" and index of other Boehret articles. New York, New York: The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2013, etc.
  2. "Katherine Boehret, Deputy Editor, Re/code." Engleood Cliffs, New Jersey: CNBC TV, retrieved online February 23, 2019.
  3. Cision Media Research. "Katherine Boehret Says Goodbye to The Verge." Chicago, Illinois: Cision, July 5, 2016.
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