Bob Sullivan, author and investigative journalist
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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of five books, including New York Times Best-Sellers, Gotcha Capitalism and Stop Getting Ripped Off! He has won the Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award, a Peabody award, a Webby award, a Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Cybersecurity Journalism Award, and the Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness Consumer Media Service Award. He spent nearly two decades working at MSNBC.com and NBC News, and he still appears on TODAY, NBC Nightly News, and CNBC. He’s now a syndicated columnist and frequent TV guest. He is also host of AARP’s The Perfect Scam podcast, co-host of the podcast / audio documentary “Breach“, which examines history’s biggest hacking stories, and co-host of the podcast “So, Bob,” which tackles stories about the unintended consequences of technology. His latest podcast is called Debugger, exploring issues at the intersection of technology and democracy, produced with Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where Bob is a visiting scholar.
He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a degrees in history and mathematics from Fairfield University. He is on the advisory board of the University of Georgia journalism school’s Cox Institute for Media Innovation and is a mentor/editor at the Op-Ed Project.
He worked for MSNBC.com/NBC News for nearly 20 years, much of them creating and writing the popular consumer/tech blog The Red Tape Chronicles. Now an independent journalist, he is still a contributor on CNBC.com and NBCNews.com, and continues to appear on NBC TV programs as a consumer and technology expert. He is a syndicated columnist, writing about fraud, scams, and the economy. His stories have also appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, and on dozens of other sites.
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SELECTED VIDEOS
- Animation: How fees are stealing your retirement
- Day in the Life or your data
- We haven’t enhanced our security
- At Google Talks
- Animation: The Death of the Price Tag
- Readers helped me expose more Bell, Calif.-like salaries
- The Gotcha Room
- Family intervention: Avoiding Gotchas
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Bob also runs an online support group for families who have recently lost a beloved pet. Called “So Lucky Memorial,” the group began after Bob wrote about suddenly losing his dog Lucky, and received an overwhelming response. Pet owners are invited to post pictures on the Facebook page and write a post beginning with the phrase, “I was so lucky that….” See Bob’s original story.
