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Kara Swisher

Monday, April 28, 2025 @ 4:30pm



Kean Stage - North Avenue Academic Building
215 North Avenue, Hillside, NJ 07205

One of the most respected journalists covering technology and Silicon Valley, Swisher is the host of On with Kara Swisher and co-host of the Pivot podcast. She’s also an editor-at-large at New York Magazine, a CNN contributor, and an expert on the promise and peril of AI. Her lecture will follow Kean University’s Research Days, the University’s annual celebration of learning and research.

The co-founder of the technology website Recode, Swisher was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Webby Award. She has been reporting on the tech industry since the early 1990s – and was there when Amazon was looking for its first headquarters in Seattle; Google was in its garage; and Netflix was a small startup.

Once called “Silicon Valley’s most feared but revered journalist” by New York Magazine , Swisher has established herself as the oracle of the tech world with unrivaled access to the industry’s most significant leaders. Swisher’s new book Burn Book: A Tech Love Story is part memoir, part history, and ultimately a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. Burn Book includes soaring tales of innovation and brilliant entrepreneurs, as well as Silicon Valley’s much more complex history of striving, success, and failure. The book details how the commercial internet came into being and how, for all it has given the world, it now sits at the center of global power, creating a clear and present danger to humanity.

Ticket Information

Tickets are free for Kean students, faculty and staff but there is a limit of one ticket per person.  Tickets must be reserved in advance. Tickets are $20 for Kean alumni and the public.

Event Location

The lecture, which is open to the public, will take place at the North Avenue Academic Building at Kean’s main campus in Union.

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