Kevin Maney

Kevin Maney is a best-selling author and award-winning columnist. He writes weekly about technology and society for Newsweek.

Kevin has been a contributor to Fortune, The Atlantic, Fast Company and ABC News. He was a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio during its brief run from 2007 to 2009. For 22 years, he was a columnist, editor and reporter at USA Today.

Kevin has appeared frequently on television and radio, including CBS Sunday Morning and NPR, and lectures at conferences and universities, including New York University, UNC in Chapel Hill, and his alma mater, Rutgers. Kevin has collaborated with CEOs and thought leaders on many, many published pieces.

Kevin lives in New York with his wife, Kristin Young. He is a lifelong soccer and hockey player and will be damned if he’s going to stop, and plays music with other old New York rockers whenever he can.

Kevin's The Two-Second Advantage was a 2011 New York Times bestseller. He co-authored Making the World Work Better, published in 20011 in conjunction with IBM’s centennial. More than 600,000 copies are in print. His biography The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM won critical praise from The New York Times, The Economist and numerous other publications. His first book, 1995's Megamedia Shakeout, was one of the earliest books about media going digital.