David Pogue

David Pogue
Pogue in 2010
Born
David Welch Pogue

(1963-03-09) March 9, 1963 (age 61)
Alma materYale University (BA)
Spouse(s)Jennifer Letitia O'Sullivan (1995-2011)
Nicole "Nicki" Dugan Pogue (2013– )
Children3
Websitedavidpogue.com

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 Nova ScienceNow, the Making Stuff series in 2011 and 2013,[1] and Hunting the Elements in 2012.[2] Pogue has written or co-written seven books in the For Dummies series, and in 1999, he launched his own series of computer how-to books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes more than 100 titles. He also wrote The World According to Twitter (2009) and Pogue's Basics (2014), a New York Times bestseller.[3]

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.

  1. ^ "Making Stuff: Series Overview". Nova. pbs.org. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  2. ^ "Hunting the Elements". NOVA. PBS.org. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  3. ^ "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  4. ^ Kaufman, Leslie (21 October 2013). "Pogue, Times Technology Columnist, Is Leaving for Yahoo". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  5. ^ David Pogue [@pogue] (November 13, 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.