An Alumni returns home
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| Arik Hesseldahl visits LBCC journalism students. |
Arik Hesseldahl, a former student at Linn Benton Community College, was on campus after more than 20 years to talk to journalism students about some of his career experiences and choices.
Hesseldahl works as a senior editor since December 2010 at AllthingsD, which is connected to but not owned by the Wall Street journal. Dow Jones owns the web site, with a contractual agreement with Newscorp.
AllthingsD.com, per Wikipedia, is an online publication that specializes in technology and startup company news, analysis, and coverage. It was founded as an extension of the D:All things Digital conference in 2007 by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.
Hesseldahl is "enterprise dude" and writes a column, NewEnterprise, with a focus on information on corporate technology. Having recently broke the story regarding the restructuring of Hewlett Packard, with loss of approximately 27,000 jobs and 5,000 of these forced retirement, Hesseldahl was interviewed on CNN about Mike Daisey’s debacle in his monologue, in which Daisey lied about his story and his sources with claims of the use of underage workers and about meeting workers poisoned by a chemical called n-Hexane, used to polish screens for Apple, which adversely affected Apple, Inc., and the first release of the Hurd letter, which led to the resignation of Mark Hurd as CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2010.
Hesseldahl was with BusinessWeek, then owned by McGraw-Hill Companies, when it was at its pinnacle of over 200 pages to its end as BusinessWeek to become Bloomberg Business Week of 72 pages with a poorer quality product. After being a former senior tech writer for Bloomberg Business Week, a reporter for Bloomberg News, and former senior editor and tech columnist for Forbes.com, Hesseldahl, also, hosts two video podcasts, “Tech 101” and “The Wireless Way”, but got his start as a sports reporter for the Corvallis Gazette Times, in Corvallis, Oregon.
Talking about how he got where he is, Hesseldahl now lives in New York, with a masters in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997, receiving a BA in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1993, and after completing work at LBCC, working on The Commuter.
Talking about how he got where he is, Hesseldahl now lives in New York, with a masters in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997, receiving a BA in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1993, and after completing work at LBCC, working on The Commuter.
Being on campus, along with his father, Norm, Hesseldahl came to Oregon this week on his way to a conference in California, admits that he has not been here often due to lack of work but loves and misses natural attractions and people here.
At A Glance:
At A Glance:
Former student at LBCC, graduated from University of Oregon, with a masters degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and now works at AllthingsD.com.
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