Declan McCullagh bio

Declan McCullagh is the chief political correspondent and senior writer for CNET and writes a weekly column titled "Other People's Money" for CBS News. He recently moved to San Francisco, California after living in Washington, DC for over a decade.

An award-winning journalist, McCullagh writes and speaks frequently about technology, law, and politics. From 1998 to 2002, he was the Washington bureau chief for Wired. Previously he was a reporter for Time Magazine, Time Digital Daily, and The Netly News, as well as a correspondent for HotWired.

McCullagh's articles have appeared in scores of publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy magazine, George magazine, The New Republic, Communications of the ACM, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, ABC News' Good Morning America, NBC Evening News, Court TV, and CNN. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and an adjunct faculty member at American University in Washington, DC where he has taught a graduate journalism class.

McCullagh moderates Politech, a well-known mailing list looking broadly at politics and technology that he founded in 1994, and has been online since 1988. He was the first online reporter to join the National Press Club; he participated in the first White House dot com press pool; and was one of the first online journalists to receive credentials from the press gallery of the U.S. Congress. McCullagh has spoken at schools including Stanford University, MIT, Harvard University, Georgetown University, the University of Chicago, and Duke University, and has testified before the Federal Trade Commission.

In addition to tinkering with his classic NeXT cube, terabyte RAID array, and gigabit Ethernet network at home, McCullagh programs in C and Perl, and maintains a Linux server that supports about seven web sites, some with a MySQL backend. He rides a Honda 919 motorcycle, is a private pilot who flies a Diamond Katana, and lives in the lower foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The mccullagh.org photo database is his own design.

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