David Zielenziger, the first tech reporter for what was then called Bloomberg Business News, died Tuesday at the age of 72.
An obituary states, “Zielenziger, a proud 1974 graduate of Princeton University, where he was chairman of the campus newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, joined The Baltimore Sun after college.
“Between 1978 and 1982, he was Kuala Lumpur Bureau Chief for the Asian Wall St. Journal, where his reporting on political corruption earned him the enmity of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. He also spent a year as Canadian correspondent for The Dallas Morning News. (EDIT: His LinkedIn profile and a former work colleague state he worked for the Times Herald in Dallas, not the Morning News.)
“Returning to the United States, Mr. Zielenziger focused his reporting on the revolution taking place in semiconductors and computer software. He spent eight years writing about chips for Electronic Engineering Times, before joining Bloomberg in 1992 to cover technology companies like Intel, Oracle and IBM.
“After leaving Bloomberg in 2002, he worked for Newsweek, Thomson Reuters, and other publications.”
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