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Natali Del Conte

Natali Del Conte, circa 2008
Born Natali Del Conte
August 28, 1978 (1978-08-28) (age 29)
New York, New York
Occupation Television Internet Journalist
Official website

Natali Del Conte (born August 28, 1978, in San Leandro, California) is a technology news journalist and online media personality. In early 2008 Natali moved to New York and joined CNET where she is the senior editor and host of a show called, LOADED on CNET TV which is being reformatted in Spanish and hosted by her on the Univision hispanic network.

Prior to joining CNET, she wrote, produced, and hosted a show called TeXtra on the Podshow network. Natali has also written articles for Wired (magazine), Variety Magazine, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, The San Francisco Examiner, AppScout, PC Magazine, ELLEgirl, Aware Magazine, The Oakland Tribune, Hispanic Magazine, Hispanic Trends, and The Santa Cruz Sentinel.

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[edit] Biography

Natali is the oldest child of Tom and Wanda Del Conte, and spent her early childhood in Fremont, California.

[edit] Education

Del Conte graduated from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, California in 1996 and went on to receive her BA in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Journalism from California State University, Hayward in 2000. She then received her MA in Sociology with an emphasis in Mass Media from the University of Southern California in 2004. As a graduate student, she was fully funded through the James Irvine Foundation through the Irvine Fellowship. She completed all coursework towards a gender certificate, meaning her work also concentrated around gender studies. Natali was funded to complete a PhD in sociology and finished all required courses towards the doctorate but never took her qualifying exams or completed a dissertation.

[edit] Career

Natali’s first journalism job out of college was as a staff writer for the Features section of the Oakland Tribune. She stayed there a year before leaving for graduate school in 2001. After graduate school, Natali took a year sabbatical and taught yoga at Canyon Ranch SpaClub at the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. When she returned to the Bay Area, she did a short stint in public relations for SHIFT Communications where she represented enterprise technology companies. Natali left SHIFT Communications in order to return to journalism in 2005. She began freelancing for MarketWatch [1], Variety, The Oakland Tribune, Hispanic Magazine [2], and others. In late 2005, she was hired as a business reporter for the San Francisco Examiner.

In 2006, Natali joined the news desk at PC Magazine [3]. In October of 2006, she was recruited by TechCrunch and left to work there for a short stint.

While working for PC Magazine, Natali began making appearances on Cranky Geeks, which launched her video career quite unexpectedly. Adam Curry noticed her on an episode of Cranky Geeks and contacted her with the idea of doing her own show for the Podshow network. Natali left TechCrunch in December of 2006 and joined Podshow full time. Natali, Adam, and the production staff at Podshow developed TeXtra in January of 2007 and the show launched on February 13, 2007.

In December 2007 it was announced that Natali would be leaving Podshow for CNET TV in 2008, so TeXtra has shut down. Natali's new show, LOADED started in February 2008 with coverage from CES [4].

While doing LOADED, Natali freelances for Wired, PC Magazine, AppScout, Aware Magazine, and ELLEgirl [5]. She also makes regular appearances on Geek Brief, G4TV’s Attack of the Show, and Cranky Geeks.

[edit] Guest Appearances

  • May 7, 2007: The Naked Trucker & T-Bones's, Natali discuss Bittorrent's new deals with Hollywood, and her deals with the pod-o-sphere. She also talks about how she started the podcast and what she wants out of being with PodShow.[6]
  • March 29, 2007: [G4TV] Attack of the show, Natali talked about how she is not a fan of the whole Twitter concept.[7]
  • January 10, 2008: [G4 TV] Best of CES 2008, Natali join the G4 crew to talk about some of the best gadgets seen at CES this year.[8]
  • February 20, 2008: CNBC interview's Natali about future of the growing video game industry.[9]
  • March 29, 2008: Fox News, Natali informs everone the best way to get a Nintendo Wii.[10]
  • April 2, 2008: Revision3 Internet Superstar, Natali is interviewed regarding her work at CNET TV.[11]
  • April 10, 2007: Marketplace Public Radio interviews Natali about the art of cyber phishing and identity theft.[12]
  • April 14, 2007: NBC Today show's Matt Lauer interviews Natali about saving money with on-line purchases through the use of web based coupon codes.[13]
  • April 18, 2007: NBC Today show's Matt Lauer interviews Natali about how to save time using the Internet.[14]
  • April 18, 2007: Natali Del Conte, star of Loaded, joins the boys of the CNET 404 to talk about Jeff's visit to see Shigeru Miyamoto, digital copy of Juno, and movies coming up this weekend.[15]
  • April 18, 2007: GeekBrief.TV Cali Lewis interviews Natali about her new gig as Senior Editor for CNET TV and her new show Loaded. Cali and Natali also talk her transition from print journalism to video, and her famous flickr photos of food.[16]
  • April 25, 2007: CNBC Interview about free online gaming with, Natalie Del Conte, of CNET, and Billy Pidgeon, of IDC.[17]

[edit] Personal

Natali Del Conte has one sister, Linzi, who is three years younger. Natali is part Puerto Rican, part Hawaiian, and part Italian[1], and currently lives in New York City. She has over 90 pairs of shoes and is a self-proclaimed good cook and knitter. She also can recite the lyrics of any cheesy song from the 80's.

[edit] References

  1. ^ MarketWatch - Natali's Story - Talking turkey
  2. ^ Hispanic Magazine - Natali's Story - Out of the Shadows
  3. ^ PC Mag - Natali's Story - San Francisco Gets Free FONs for Wi-Fi
  4. ^ TechCruch - TeXtra’s Natali Del Conte Leaves Podshow For CNET TV
  5. ^ ELLEgirl - Natali's Story - Holiday Gadget Guide
  6. ^ Classic Naked Trucker and T-Bones - Natali talks about Bittorrent.
  7. ^ G4 - Natali talks about Twitter.
  8. ^ G4 - Natali best of CES 2008 with Kevin Pereira.
  9. ^ CNBC - Natali talks about the video game industry.
  10. ^ Fox News - Natali talks about best way to get a Nintendo Wii.
  11. ^ Internet Superstar Episode 10 - Episode of Internet Superstar in which Natali is interviewd.
  12. ^ Marketplace Public Raio - Natali talks about cyber phishing and identity theft.
  13. ^ NBC Today Show - Natali talks about on-line coupons.
  14. ^ NBC Today Show - Natali talks about how to save time on the Internet.
  15. ^ CNET 404 - Natali talks with the Boys of the 404.
  16. ^ GeekBrief.TV - Interviews Natali about living in NY.
  17. ^ CNBC -Interview about free online gaming.

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