David Pogue
David Pogue | |
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Born | David Welch Pogue March 9, 1963 Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S. |
Alma mater | Yale University (BA) |
Spouse(s) | Jennifer Letitia O'Sullivan (1995-2011) Nicole "Nicki" Dugan Pogue (2013– ) |
Children | 3 |
Website | davidpogue |
David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is an American technology and science writer and TV presenter, and correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning.
He has hosted 18 Nova specials on PBS, including
In 2013, Pogue left The New York Times to join Yahoo!, where he would create a new consumer-technology Web site.[4] In 2018, returned to the Times[5] as the writer of the "Crowdwise" feature for the "Smarter Living" section.
Early years
Pogue was born in
Career
Pogue wrote for Macworld magazine from 1988–2000. His back-page column was called The Desktop Critic. Pogue got his start writing books when Macworld owner IDG asked him to write Macs for Dummies to follow on the success of the first ...For Dummies book, DOS For Dummies, written by Dan Gookin.[9]
Starting in November 2000, Pogue served as the personal-tech columnist The New York Times; his column, "State of the Art," appeared each Thursday on the front page of the Business section. He also wrote "From the Desk of David Pogue," a tech-related opinion column sent to readers by e-mail. He also maintained a blog at nytimes.com called Pogue's Posts.
Pogue joined CBS News Sunday Morning as a correspondent since 2002, writing and hosting stories on technology, science, the environment, and show business.
From 2007 to 2011, Pogue appeared on CNBC's Power Lunch in a taped, three-minute comic tech review, which then appeared on the New York Times website, nytimes.com, as well as iTunes, YouTube, TiVo, and JetBlue.
In 2007, the
From 2010 to 2019, Pogue wrote a monthly column for Scientific American called "Techno Files."
He hosted a four-part PBS Nova miniseries about materials science called "Making Stuff," which aired on four consecutive Wednesdays starting January 19, 2011, on PBS.[1] It was followed by a two-hour special about the periodic table, "Hunting the Elements," which aired April 4, 2012.[2] He hosted a further series, "Making More Stuff," on Nova in 2013.[10]
Taking up where "Hunting the Elements left off, Pogue hosted a three-part PBS Nova series "Beyond the Elements," about how key molecules and chemical reactions paved the way for life on earth, including humans and their civilizations. The series aired on February 3, 2021.[11]
Pogue's December 2022 report for CBS Sunday Morning, which questioned the safety of the Titan submersible, went viral on social media after the submersible went missing in June 2023 with five people onboard.[12][13]
Pogue is a frequent speaker at educational and government conferences, addressing such topics as disruptive technology, social media, digital photography, and why products fail.[14] He has performed three times at TED conferences: in 2006, a 20-minute talk about simplicity; in 2007, a medley of high-tech song parodies at the piano (or, as Pogue joked, "a tedley,"); and in 2013, offering tips everyone should know ("a driver's ed for tech").[15][16] In 2008, he performed at the EG conference, also in Monterey, talking about cellphones, the tricks they can be made to do, and how the phones are often better than the companies that market them.
Consumer advocacy
In July 2009, Pogue launched "Take Back the Beep."
In November 2009, Pogue reported on a Verizon customer’s complaint that the wireless carrier charged $1.99 for "bogus data downloads" every time an internet connection was established, even if the user did not intend to use the connection. The practice was validated by a reader who claimed to work for Verizon.[21] The charge resulted whenever a Verizon customer touched the up-arrow key on some Verizon phones. The key is easy to hit accidentally and is preprogrammed by Verizon to launch the mobile Web, causing the consumer to incur a $1.99 data charge each time the key is pressed.[21] As a result of Pogue’s reportage, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked Verizon to explain the data charge.[22] In October 2010, in response to the FCC inquiry, Verizon agreed to pay up to $90 million in refunds to 15 million customers "wrongly charged for data sessions or Internet use," one of the largest refunds by a telecommunications company.[23]
Conflict of interest and other issues
In a 2005 New York Times review of a
In September 2009, Pogue's New York Times review of the Snow Leopard Macintosh operating system, a product for which he had also authored a
In June 2011, Pogue gave a presentation at the Media Relations Summit sponsored by Ragan Communications in which he offered advice to PR professionals on how to successfully pitch him.[28] Arthur S. Brisbane, The New York Times' reader representative, subsequently wrote that the paper’s ethics policy states staff members and freelancers on assignment "may not advise individuals or organizations how to deal successfully with the news media."[28] Though Pogue is not a Times staff member and was not on assignment, an internal review determined that his presentation was not appropriate.[28] In an email to Brisbane about the matter, Pogue wrote that in the future, "my speaking agent will now present every offer to my [Times] editor and me simultaneously."[28]
Awards
In 2004, Pogue won a Business
Shenandoah Conservatory awarded Pogue an honorary doctorate in music in August 2007 for "his unique imagination of the boundary between music as a classical discipline and the computer of the future, and his artistic contributions".[30]
In 2008, Pogue received a Society of Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Journalism award for his New York Times video, The iPhone Challenge: Keep it Quiet.[31]
On May 5, 2009, Pogue won two
His blog, "Pogue’s Posts" in The New York Times, received the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Online Commentary & Blogging.[33]
In 2011, Pogue won the second "Golden Mouth Organ" award on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for being the second person on the show who, when presented with a harmonica, could actually play it.[34]
In 2013, Pogue was named an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication.[35]
Works
Nonfiction
- Pogue, David; Scott Speck (1997). Classical Music for Dummies. Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide. ISBN 9781119049753.
- Engst, Adam; David Pogue (1999). Crossing Platforms: A Macintosh/Windows Phrasebook. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly.
- CSS: the Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596802448)
- David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596154035)
- The Flat-Screen iMac For Dummies (ISBN 978-0764516634)
- GarageBand: the Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596006952)
- GarageBand 2: the Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596100353)
- The Great Macintosh Easter Egg Hunt (ISBN 978-0425160060)
- The iBook For Dummies (ISBN 978-0764506475)
- iLife '04: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596006945)
- iLife '05: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596100360)
- The iMac For Dummies (ISBN 0764504959)
- iMovie: The Missing Manual (ISBN 1565928598)
- iMovie 2: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596001049)
- iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596005078)
- iMovie 4 & iDVD: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596006938)
- iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596100339)
- iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596527266)
- iMovie '08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596516192)
- iMovie '09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596801410)
- iMovie '11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-1449393274)
- iPhoto: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596003654)
- iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596005061)
- iPhoto 4: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596006921)
- iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596100346)
- iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596527259)
- iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596516185)
- iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596801441)
- iPhoto '11: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-1449393236)
- Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-1565928572)
- Mac OS X: The Missing Manual (ISBN 0596000820)
- Mac OS X Hints (with ISBN 978-0596004514)
- Macs For Dummies (ISBN 978-0764503986)
- Macworld Mac Secrets (6 total editions) (with ISBN 978-0764534157)
- Magic For Dummies (ISBN 978-0764551017)
- The Microsloth Joke Book: A Satire (editor) (ISBN 978-0425160541)
- More Macs For Dummies (ISBN 978-0764502675)
- Opera For Dummies (with ISBN 978-0764550102)
- PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide (ISBN 1565926005)
- Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596004521)
- Tales from the Tech Line: Hilarious Strange-But-True Stories from the Computer Industry's Technical-Support Hotlines (editor) (ISBN 978-0425163634)
- The Weird Wide Web (with ISBN 978-0614262995)
- Windows Me: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596000097)
- Windows Vista: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596528270)
- Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596528263)
- Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596008970)
- Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-0596008987)
- The World According to Twitter (ISBN 978-1579128272)
- Windows 8.0: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-1449314033)
- Windows 8.1: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-1449371623)
- Windows 10: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-1491947173)
- Windows 10 May 2019 Update: The Missing Manual (ISBN 978-1492057291)
- Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying the Technology in Your Life (ISBN 9781250053480)
- Pogue's Basics: Life: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying Your Day (ISBN 9781250080431)
Fiction
- Pogue, David (1993). Hard Drive : A Novel By David Pogue. New York: Berkeley. Reprint 1995: Ace (ISBN 9780441002559). Mass market paperback edition: Diamond Books
- "Abby Carnelia's One and Only Magical Power" (2010, novel for middle-schoolers) (ISBN 978-1596433847)
References
- ^ a b "Making Stuff: Series Overview". Nova. pbs.org. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ a b "Hunting the Elements". NOVA. PBS.org. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ Kaufman, Leslie (21 October 2013). "Pogue, Times Technology Columnist, Is Leaving for Yahoo". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ David Pogue [@pogue] (November 14, 2018). "Well, after five great years—407 articles, 352 videos, 46 live appearances—I'm saying farewell to the Yahoo family. I'll be redoubling my efforts at '@CBSSunday Morning'—and returning to the @NYTimes to launch a new column! Details soon!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Patricia Pogue Obituary". www.cleveland.com. Brown Forward Funeral Home. March 2, 2023. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
- ^ "Patricia Ruth (Raney) Pogue". www.echovita.com. Brown Forward Funeral Home. March 23, 2023. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
- ^ "Memorial Service Patricia Raney Pogue". www.youtube.com. Plymouth Church UCC. May 7, 2023. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
- ^ a b Pogue, David. "About David Pogue". DavidPogue.com. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
- ^ "NOVA | Making More Stuff". PBS. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- ^ "Beyond the Elements". NOVA. PBS.org. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ Kanter, Jake (20 June 2023). "CBS Story On OceanGate's Missing Titanic Sub Goes Viral After Reporter David Pogue Got Jitters Over Its "Jerry-Rigged" Design". Deadline. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ Panella, Chris. "Maker of the lost Titanic sub once told a reporter that 'at some point, safety is just pure waste'". Insider. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ^ Pogue, David. "Pogue's Pages". Speaking Inquiries. David Pogue. Archived from the original on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ TED (24 January 2008). "David Pogue on the music wars".
- ^ "David Pogue at TED U". TED2013. Flickr. 28 February 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ^ a b Pogue, David (30 July 2009). "'Take Back the Beep' Campaign". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Pogue, David (18 February 2010). "Will Carriers Offer a Better Way to Get Voice Mail?". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ a b Pogue, David (31 July 2009). "Take Back The Beep, Part II". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Pogue, David (9 September 2009). "AT&T Relents, Drops Paging Instructions from Voicemail". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ a b c Pogue, David (12 November 2009). "Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now?". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Pogue, David (4 October 2010). "Verizon Comes Clean". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Wyatt, Edward (3 October 2010). "Verizon Wireless to Pay Millions in Refunds". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ a b David Pogue (September 1, 2005). "Can You Save a Hard Drive?". The New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
- ^ a b Jeffrey A. Dvorkin (15 March 2006). "The Cost of a Story: Who Pays?". NPR. Retrieved 2007-07-05.
- ^ a b c Hoyt, Clark (5 September 2009). "He Works for The Times, Too". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
- ^ Pogue, David. "A Note About Ethics and Disclosure". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
- ^ a b c d Brisbane, Arthur S. (6 July 2011). "Times curbs Pogue's P.R. appearances". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ "The National Television Academy Announces the Winners of the Second Annual Emmy Awards for Business and Financial Reporting". National Television Academy. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ^ Kaptain, Laurence (August 30, 2007). "David Pogue Receives Honorary Doctorate from Shenandoah Conservatory". Conservatory Dean's Blog. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
- ^ "SABEW Announces Winners in its 13th Annual Best in Business Journalism Contest". The Free Library. Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ^ "13th Annual Webby Awards Announce Online Film & Video Winners" (Press release). New York: The Webby Awards. May 5, 2009. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
- ^ "CNBC, NYT, Vanity Fair Each Take Two Loeb Awards". Business Journalism. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ^ Ferguson, Craig (February 3, 2011). "Pogue Wins Craig Ferguson Mouth Organ". YouTube. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ^ Society for Technical Communication: "David Pogue Named Honorary Fellow Archived 2016-05-09 at the Wayback Machine".
- ^ How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos. Kirkus Reviews. December 15, 2020.
- ^ How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos, by David Pogue. Booklist Online. 2020-12-15.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
External links
- Official website
- David Pogue collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Pogue's Posts blog
- David Pogue at TED
- David Pogue at IMDb