Josh Quittner

Josh Quittner (born February 12, 1957) is an American journalist. He is CEO of Decrypt Media, a website which covers cryptocurrencies, NFTs and Web3.

Early life and education Born in Manhattan, Quittner grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is married to Michelle Slatalla and has three daughters, including Ella Quittner, who is also a journalist and screenwriter. He later turned the domain over to Mcdonald's after they donated $3,500 to a public school in Brooklyn, New York for computers and internet access at his request. Quittner also freelanced for the webzine HotWired, which ran his manifesto of the "Info Revolution" a riff on New Journalism that "became an instant cliché."

He joined Time Inc. as a staff writer in 1995. During his initial seven years at Time Magazine he worked for Pathfinder, Time Inc.'s first independent online presence, where he launched the Netly News, one of the web's first daily news publications. He then became the editor of Time'''s spinoff technology supplement Time Digital, later called ON Magazine.

From April 2002 until September 2007 Quittner was the editor of Business 2.0. Quittner briefly revived "Netly News" as the name of a Business 2.0 blog. He also owns the domain name roofmagazine.com, which currently Roof, a sporadically updated real-estate blog.

After Business 2.0, he served briefly as an executive editor at Fortune Magazine, working at its San Francisco bureau, before rejoining Time in April 2008 as an editor-at-large.

In 2018, Quittner and Ryan Bubinski co-founded Decrypt'', an online news website focused on blockchain, Web3 and artificial intelligence.