Full Name
Kevin Roose
Job Title
Technology Columnist
Company
The New York Times
Speaker Bio
Kevin Roose is a Technology Columnist and a Writer at Large for The New York Times Magazine. His column, The Shift, examines the intersection of technology, business and culture.
Before joining The Times, Roose was a Vice President at Fusion Media Group, and a Columnist for New York magazine. He was the co-host and executive producer of “Real Future,” a documentary series about technology that aired on the Fusion TV network. He has also covered Wall Street for DealBook, The Times’s financial news service, and has written for publications including GQ, Vanity Fair and Esquire. His writing has been included in Best American Business Writing, and in 2015, he was named to Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list.
Roose is the New York Times best-selling author of two books, “Young Money” (2014) and “The Unlikely Disciple” (2009), both of which were published by Hachette Book Group.
He is a graduate of Brown University and lives in Brooklyn.
Before joining The Times, Roose was a Vice President at Fusion Media Group, and a Columnist for New York magazine. He was the co-host and executive producer of “Real Future,” a documentary series about technology that aired on the Fusion TV network. He has also covered Wall Street for DealBook, The Times’s financial news service, and has written for publications including GQ, Vanity Fair and Esquire. His writing has been included in Best American Business Writing, and in 2015, he was named to Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list.
Roose is the New York Times best-selling author of two books, “Young Money” (2014) and “The Unlikely Disciple” (2009), both of which were published by Hachette Book Group.
He is a graduate of Brown University and lives in Brooklyn.
