Walt Mossberg: The Exit Interview

At an age when some may consider spending more time practicing their golf swing or perfecting their poker face, tech journalist Walt Mossberg is about to embark on what may be his biggest adventure yet. After 22 years as The Wall Street Journal's personal technology columnist, Mossberg penned his last column this week. As of 2014, he will helm a new tech media enterprise with longtime business partner Kara Swisher — one that still does not have a name.

Mossberg, 66, whom I’ve known for years, created one of the industry’s earliest every-person tech columns, a model for many to follow. He covered the dawn of the personal computer, the dawn of the Internet and the dawn of social media. He has received criticism for heaping too much praise on Apple products (he wrote that Apple’s iPad “cracked the code” on the tablet category) and is admired as the first to try some of those very same products. Read more...