Tom Watson (born February 21, 1962[1] in Yonkers, New York) is an American journalist, entrepreneur and blogger.
Watson is the author CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008), and managing partner of CauseWired Communications, a consulting company he co-founded. Previously, he co-founded national philanthropic services company Changing Our World, Inc.[2] At Changing Our World, Watson created onPhilanthropy, an online resource for philanthropy professionals; he often comments on[3] and writes frequently about the intersection of media and philanthropy. In recent years he has served as a board member of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy,[4] where he helped to create the popular DMIblog, and the New York Software Industry Association.
Watson was the founder and editor of newcritics, an online journal of media and arts criticism launched in January, 2007 and shuttered in June, 2009. [5]
Watson was co-founder and co-editor with Jason Chervokas of @NY, the pioneering Internet news and information service that has chronicled New York’s technology sector - Silicon Alley - since 1995. The company was acquired by Internet.com[6] in April 1999.
Watson began his career as a reporter and later executive editor of The Riverdale Press, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in the Bronx, where he covered politics, and won more than a dozen state and national awards for excellence in journalism. The paper won national acclaim during his tenure for not missing an issue after terrorists linked to Iran destroyed the newspaper's offices with firebombs.[7] Watson received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University.