About Larry Magid

Larry Magid is a technology journalist and an Internet safety advocate.

Larry is co-director of ConnectSafely.org (with Anne Collier) and is founder of SafeKids.com.   He also serves as Technology Analyst for CBS News and writes columns that appear on CNET News, CBSNews.com and the San Jose Mercury News. 

His technology reports can be heard several times a week on CBS News and CBS affiliates throughout the U.S. and he has a daily tech segment for KCBS radio in San Francisco. He’s made several appearances on CBS News network TV programs, CNET webcasts and local TV news stations.  He has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times.

One of Larry’s newest books is MySpace Unraveled: A parents guide to teen social networking, coauthored with Anne Collier. He also wrote The Little PC Book, a critically acclaimed best seller. Other books include The Little Quicken Book, Cruising Online: Larry Magid’s Guide to the New Digital Highways, The Fully Powered PC and Electronic Link: Using the IBM PC to Communicate.

Magid authored several Internet safety guides including, Child Safety on the Information Highway and Teen Safety on the Information Highway for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

He’s written for Fortune, Family Circle, PC World, Information Week, ComputerWorld and numerous other publications. He’s been a guest several national and local broadcast shows throughout the country including The Larry King Show, CBS’ Early Show, NBC’s Today Show, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

He’s a board member of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and a member of the advisory boards of both GetNetWise.org and Family Online Safety Institute and served on the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.

Magid has a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He resides in Palo Alto, California where he helped raise two digital natives.  His personal websites is www.larrysworld.com