Robert Buderi is an American journalist, author, and editor. Buderi also served as technology editor of BusinessWeek from 1990–1992 and editor-in-chief of MIT's Technology Review from 2002-2004. He was a Research Fellow in MIT's Center for International Studies from 2005-2007. In June 2007, he launched Xconomy, a business and technology blog in Cambridge, MA.
Born in Berkeley, CA, Buderi attended the University of California, Berkeley and received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis in 1977. In 1978, he earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Arizona. In the 1986-87 academic year, he was a Vannevar Bush Fellow at MIT.