Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern is an Emmy Award-winning technology journalist. She opens Chautauqua’s week of “Charting a New Media Landscape” with remarks inspired by her new book I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything and the launch of her own new media company. Drawing on a year of real-world experiments with AI tools — and the practical results — she will explore how generative AI is changing reporting, storytelling, editing, audience growth and the business of journalism. Stern will look at what’s gained, what’s at risk and what new rules and skills media organizations and individual journalists will need as AI blurs the lines between fact and fiction. Previously, Stern spent 12 years at The Wall Street Journal, where her personal technology columns and video series made her one of the most-watched voices in consumer tech. Now running her own new media company, she produces videos and newsletters that help people navigate the tech reshaping daily life. Stern’s 2021 documentary “E-Ternal” won an Emmy for Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage. A two-time Gerald Loeb Award winner and Pulitzer finalist, she often appears on national television, radio, and podcasts such as “The Vergecast.” She previously served as a technology editor at ABC News and The Verge. Stern lives in New Jersey with her wife, sons, dog, and more gadgets than a Best Buy.