Natali Del Conte
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Natali Terese Del Conte (del kont̪e) (born August 28, 1978, in San Leandro, California) is a technology news journalist and online media personality. Del Conte is a senior editor for CNET.com and co-hosts the technology news podcast Buzz Out Loud, one of CNET.com's flagship podcasts, in addition to Loaded, a daily technology news show on CNET TV. Previously, Loaded was reformatted in Spanish and shown on the Spanish language Univision television network.
Prior to joining CNET, she wrote, produced, and hosted a show called TeXtra on the Podshow network. Natali has also written articles for Wired (magazine), Variety Magazine, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, The San Francisco Examiner, AppScout, PC Magazine, ELLEgirl, Mexican Monthly, Aware Magazine, The Oakland Tribune, Hispanic Magazine, Hispanic Trends, and The Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Biography
Natali is the oldest child of Tom Del Conte and Wanda Del Conte, and spent her early childhood in Fremont, California. Natali was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, but is currently inactive in the religion (as referenced on TWIT #202.) Her sister, Linzi, is three years younger than she is. Natali currently resides in New York City. She announced officially on 1 April 2010, that she is expecting her first child. Her first child Miles Benjamin Morris was born July 26, 2010. The father is Clayton Morris of Fox News.Education
Del Conte graduated from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, California, in 1996 and went on to receive her BA in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Journalism from California State University, East Bay in 2000. She then received her MA in Sociology with an emphasis in Mass Media from the University of Southern California in 2004. As a graduate student, she was fully funded through the James Irvine Foundation through the Irvine Fellowship. She completed all coursework towards a gender certificate, meaning her work also concentrated around gender studies. Natali was funded to complete a PhD in sociology and finished all required courses towards the doctorate but has not yet taken her qualifying examination or completed a dissertation.Career
Natali’s first journalism job out of college was as a staff writer for the Features section of the Oakland Tribune. She stayed there a year before leaving for graduate school in 2001. After graduate school, Natali took a year sabbatical and taught yoga at Canyon Ranch SpaClub at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. When she returned to the Bay Area, she did a short stint in public relations for SHIFT Communications where she represented enterprise technology companies. Natali left SHIFT Communications in order to return to journalism in 2005. She began freelancing for MarketWatch , Variety, The Oakland Tribune, Hispanic Magazine , and others. In late 2005, she was hired as a business reporter for the San Francisco Examiner.In 2006, Natali joined the news desk at PC Magazine . In October 2006, she was recruited by TechCrunch and left to work there for a short stint.
While working for PC Magazine, Del Conte began making appearances on Cranky Geeks, which launched her video career quite unexpectedly. Adam Curry noticed her on an episode of Cranky Geeks and contacted her with the idea of doing her own show for the Podshow network. She left TechCrunch in December 2006 and joined Podshow full time. Del Conte, Curry, and the production staff at Podshow developed TeXtra in January 2007, and the show launched on February 13, 2007.
In December 2007 it was announced that Del Conte would be leaving Podshow for CNET TV in 2008, and TeXtra was shut down. Natali's new show, Loaded started in February 2008 with coverage from CES 2008.
In addition to her duties at CNET, Del Conte freelances for Wired, PC Magazine, AppScout, Aware Magazine, and ELLEgirl . She also makes regular appearances on The CBS Early Show, and Red Eye'' (prior to her CBS exclusivity agreement).
In January 2009, Del Conte became co-host of the Buzz Out Loud podcast, taking the place of journalist Molly Wood who was exiting full time involvement with the podcast in order to focus on other CNET projects.
In June 2009, it was announced that Natali would be one of the judges for the 2010 CES i-Stage competition.
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