Natali Terese Morris (née Del Conte; born August 28, 1978) is an American online media personality and co-founder of Morris Invest, a real estate investment company. She was formerly a technology news journalist with CNET and

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Background

Morris is a former editor for CNET.com and is a former co-host of the technology news podcast '' Buzz Out Loud'', one of CNET.com's flagship podcasts, in addition to ''Loaded'', a daily technology news show on CNET TV. Previously, ''Loaded'' was reformatted in Spanish and shown on the Spanish language

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television network. Prior to joining CNET, she wrote, produced, and hosted a show "TeXtra" on

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. She has written for such publications as ''

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, ''

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'', '' MarketWatch'', ''

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'', ''The San Francisco Examiner'', '' PC Magazine'', '' ELLEgirl'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Biography

On October 21, 2010 on CNET's "The 404" podcast she announced she married Fox News Channel host

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in an October 2010 lunchtime ceremony at New York City Hall, and would take the last name Morris both professionally and personally as of mid-November 2010. In 2010 she gave birth to the couple's first child. In 2012 she gave birth to the couple's second child. The family moved from New Jersey to Portugal in 2019. Morris and her husband had initially relocated to Pennsylvania before leaving the country all together. According to Morris, they moved to the country on temporary visas to allow their children to attend schools overseas.

Education

Morris graduated from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, California in 1996 and went on to receive her BA in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Journalism from

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in 2000.

Career

Her first journalism job out of college was as a staff writer for the ''Features'' section of the ''

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''. She stayed there a year before leaving for graduate school in 2001. After graduate school, Morris took a year sabbatical and taught yoga at Canyon Ranch SpaClub at The Venetian in

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. When she returned to the Bay Area, she did a short stint in public relations for SHIFT Communications where she represented enterprise technology companies. Morris left SHIFT Communications in order to return to journalism in 2005. She began freelancing for '' MarketWatch'', ''

'', ''

'', and others. In late 2005, she was hired as a business reporter for the '' San Francisco Examiner''. In 2006, Morris joined the news desk at '' PC Magazine''. In October 2006, she was recruited by ''

'' and left to work there for a short stint. While working for '' PC Magazine'', Morris began making appearances on ''

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'', which launched her video career quite unexpectedly.

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noticed her on an episode of ''

'' and contacted her with the idea of doing her own show for the

network. She left ''

'' in December 2006 and joined

full-time. Morris, Curry, and the production staff at

developed a show called TeXtra in January 2007, and the show launched on February 13, 2007. Morris left

for

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in 2008, and the TeXtra podcast was shut down. Her new show, ''Loaded'' started in February 2008 with coverage from CES 2008. In addition to her duties at CNET, Morris freelances for ''

'', '' PC Magazine'', '' AppScout'', '' Aware Magazine'', and '' ELLEgirl''. She makes regular appearances on The ''

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'', and '' Red Eye'' (prior to her CBS exclusivity agreement). In January 2009, Morris became co-host of the Buzz Out Loud podcast, taking the place of Molly Wood who left to focus on other CNET projects. In 2010, Morris and three friends started the motherhood weblog, MommyBeta The blog was nominated in ''The Bumps 2010 Mommy Blog Awards for Best Baby Journal Blog. On November 23, 2010, Morris began to host wrestling promotion Chikara new video segment, ''The Throwdown Lowdown''. Morris left CNET on Friday, April 29, 2011. On February 1, 2012, Morris announced

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would be releasing videos featuring her as the host.

Guest appearances

*March 29, 2007: On G4TV's

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, Morris talked about how she is not a fan of the whole

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concept. *April 10, 2007: Marketplace Public Radio interviews Morris about the art of cyber

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and

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. *April 14, 2007:

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show host

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interviews Morris about saving money with on-line purchases through the use of web based coupon codes. *April 18, 2007:

show host

interviews Morris about how to save time using the Internet. *April 18, 2007: Morris joined the boys of CNET's 404 podcast to talk about Jeff Bakalar's visit to see Shigeru Miyamoto,

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, and movies coming up that weekend. *April 18, 2007: GeekBrief.TV's Cali Lewis interviews Morris about her new gig as Senior Editor for CNET TV and her new show Loaded. They also talk about her transition from print journalism to video, and her famous

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photos of food. *April 25, 2007: Appears in a

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interview about free online gaming with Billy Pidgeon of IDC. *May 7, 2007: Along with

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members, Morris discusses BitTorrent's new deals with Hollywood, and her deals with the pod-o-sphere. She also talks about how she started the podcast and what she wants out of being with PodShow. *January 10, 2008: On

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's Best of CES 2008, Morris joined the G4 crew to talk about some of the best gadgets seen at CES this year. *February 20, 2008: Morris discusses the future of the growing video game industry on

. *March 29, 2008: On

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, Morris discusses the best way to get a

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. *April 2, 2008: On

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's show ''Internet Superstar'', Morris is interviewed regarding her work at CNET TV. *August 5, 2008 : Morris was a guest on the Fox News program

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. *March 17, 2009 : On

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, Natali Morris showed

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the

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and

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. *December 25 and 31, 2009: Morris served as a fill-in anchor on WCBS news broadcasts. *January 8, 2010: On

, Natali Morris showed of tech his and her gifts for Valentine's Day. *January 10, 2010: On

Morris

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's new safety control features that prevent children from seeing dangerous content. *April 25, 2010: On

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(TWiT) episode 245 as a guest with

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, and Shira Lazar. *December 19, 2010: On

(TWiT) episode 279 as a guest with

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and Marshall Kirkpatrick of "ReadWriteWeb". *May 1, 2011: On

(TWiT) episode 299 as a guest with Alex Lindsay, Wil Harris and

. *September 1, 2011: On iPad Today (TWiT) episode 61 - Natali Morris and Apps for Parents as a guest with Sarah Lane., url=http://twit.tv/show/ipad-today/61 *February 17, 2013: On

(TWiT) episode 393 as a guest with Jason Hiner, John C. Dvorak and Ryan Shrout. *May 26, 2013: On

(TWiT) episode 407 as a guest with

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and

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. *January 12, 2014: On

(TWiT) episode 440 as a guest with Marques Brownlee and John C. Dvorak. *June 30, 2014: On Marketing Mavericks (TWiT) episode 13 as a guest with Frank Eliason and Steve Faktor.

References

External links

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