Brian Bergstein is the National

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Editor for the American

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news agency, based in Boston, Massachusetts. His work focuses mainly on the economic, legal, and social implications of upcoming technologies.

Personal

He is a graduate of

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. Bergstein was raised in

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. He, his wife, and two children currently live in

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Awards and honors

From 2004 to 2005, he held one of the

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Career

Bergstein has been a technology journalist for 13 years. He has worked on the Web, computing, telecom, and in the business of technology from Silicon Valley,

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, and

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. Previously a technology writer for the Associated Press's New York bureau, Bergstein was promoted to Technology Editor in mid-2008 when the AP reorganised to cover stories by topic rather than geographical areas. He has worked as a journalism instructor at

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. He is also deputy editor of MIT Technology Review.

References

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