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New York native Dan Ackerman is currently a section editor at the leading technology news site CNET, where he oversees a team running CNET's New York gadget testing lab, reviews laptops and tablets, hosts videos, and writes about hot-button consumer technology topics.
He's a well-known TV talking head, seen on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC News, ABC, CBS, and NBC News, and other outlets, and he regularly appears as an in-house technology expert onCBS This Morning. As a writer and columnist, Ackerman has contributed regularly to magazines, includingMen's Journal, Maxim, Blender, and Sync, and he's previously served as a monthly technology columnist for bothSPIN and WWE Magazine. As an industry expert, he's been interviewed by or quoted in theNew York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, Mother Jones,Fast Company, and many other publications.
New York native
Dan Ackerman is currently a section editor at the leading technology news site CNET, where he oversees a team running CNET's New York gadget testing lab, reviews laptops and tablets, hosts videos, and writes about hot-button consumer technology topics.
He's a well-known TV talking head, seen on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC News, ABC, CBS, and NBC News, and other outlets, and he regularly appears as an in-house technology expert on
CBS This Morning. As a writer and columnist, Ackerman has contributed regularly to magazines, including
Men's Journal, Maxim, Blender, and
Sync, and he's previously served as a monthly technology columnist for both
SPIN and
WWE Magazine. As an industry expert, he's been interviewed by or quoted in the
New York Times, USA Today, the
Atlantic, Mother Jones, Fast Company, and many other publications.