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Hiawatha Bray is a technology journalist for the Boston Globe, which he joined in 1995.
Born in Chicago, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1976 and a master's degree in communications from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, in 1985.
Bray started his journalistic career at ComputerPeople Monthly, a Chicago magazine, where he was a reporter and managing editor. He then worked at:
- the Wheaton, IL Daily Journal, where he won numerous awards from the Associated Press, the Inland Daily Press Association, and the Suburban Newspapers of America
- the Lexington Kentucky Herald-Leader as a business reporter; during this period, he received a Davenport Fellowship in business journalism at the University of Missouri
- the Detroit Free Press, where he covered banking and technology; his work with a team of journalists on the NBC Dateline pickup-truck scandal won the John Hancock Award for Business Journalism
In addition, Bray was honored by the National Association of Black Journalists for his work on a series of stories about supermarkets in Detroit, and he received a Jefferson Fellowship for the study of Asian business and politics at the East-West Center in Honolulu.
Hiawatha Bray has been named as one of the 10 most influential newspaper journalists covering technology by the editors of Marketing Computers magazine. His blog is called Monitortan: The mental meanderings of Hiawatha Bray.
Last updated: August 29, 2005.
