Cyrus Farivar
| Cyrus Farivar | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 2, 1982 Santa Monica, California, United States |
| Status | married |
| Ethnicity | Persian |
| Education |
BA in Political Economy from University of California Berkeley MS Journalism Columbia University |
| Occupation | Technology journalist and Author |
| Spouse(s) | Rebecca Farivar |
Cyrus Farivar (born January 2, 1982) is an Iranian-American technology journalist currently the senior business editor at the the website Ars Technica.
Life and career
Farivar earned a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has written for The New York Times, Wired, The Economist, Slate, Macworld, The Age and has filed radio reports for NPR, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and others. He served as the Sci-Tech editor for the radio program Spectrum produced by Deutsche Welle.
He is currently the business editor at Ars Technica authoring multiple posts each week.
He is also the author of the book, The Internet of Elsewhere, published by Rutgers University Press in 2011.
His Wikipedia bio page became the focus of controversy in 2005 eventually leading to its deletion over Farivar's role in covering a small internet hoax.[1]
A search for his name in Wikipedia article space reveals about 40 citations as of 2015, plus several mentions within article texts. Googling his name gives more than 60,000 hits. [2]
References
- ↑ Barbour, Eric (April 26, 2015). "Cyrus Farivar And His Hoaxes". Wikipediocracy.
- ↑ Barbour, Eric (April 26, 2015). "Cyrus Farivar And His Hoaxes". Wikipediocracy.