Podcast Episode #90 – John Markoff

This week we interview John Markoff, a Pulitzer Prize winning, veteran science and technology journalist for The New York Times, the Pacific News Service, InfoWorld, Byte Magazine, and The San Jose Mercury. Markoff also has shared his journalistic skills as a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley School of Journalism, and as an adjunct faculty member of the Stanford Graduate Program on Journalism. His latest biography about a man revered by Steve Jobs and other Silicon Valley innovators is called, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand, published by Penguin Press in March 2022. John Markoff was interviewed via an online Zoom session on January 25th of this year, by fellow biographer and BIO member Lisa Napoli.

Photo credit: Leslie Terzian Markoff