Laurie Segall

Laurie Segall is an American journalist and media executive. She is the CEO of Mostly Human, a New York-based entertainment media company she co-founded in 2019. Previously the senior technology correspondent and an editor-at-large for CNN, her work focuses on technology and its societal, cultural, and human impact.

Early life and education Segall was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from the University of MIchigan with a BA in political science in 2008. During her senior year, she interned at CNN.

Career

2008-2018: CNN Following her graduation, Segall worked at CNN as a news desk assistant. She began covering technology in 2009, reporting on startups including Twitter, Instagram and Uber. She did several interviews with Tim Cook, among others, and interviewed Mark Zuckerberg at the height of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. She also conducted early interviews with founders including Sam Altman, Jack Dorsey (who founded Twitter), and Travis Kalanick, who founded Uber.

In 2015, she wrote, hosted, and executive produced Revenge Porn: The War on Women, which won a Gracie Award in 2016 for best original online programming. In 2017, she created, hosted and executive produced Mostly Human with Laurie Segall, a six-part documentary series that explored sex, love and death through the lens of technology, covering the “seemingly non-physically confrontational medium that is the internet as fiction begins to mimic reality.”

2019-present: Mostly Human, 60 Minutes, Special Characters Segall left CNN in 2019 and co-founded Dot Dot Dot, a content studio that initially focused on the human impact of technology. Rebranded as Mostly Human Media in 2023, the studio's initial series was First Contact, an IHeart-distributed podcast. "A blueprint of sorts to the types of stories the new company might tell", early episodes covered the rise of dating bots, artificial empathy, and online privacy. She was the first reporter to cover the suicide of a teenage boy obsessed with a chatbot on Character.ai; her segment brought international attention to chatbot addiction. Mostly Human's "My Deepfake Relationship with Mark Zuckerberg", which examined the future of disinformation, won a Webby Award in 2025; in the five-word tradition of the Webbys, in accepting the award Segall said "Deepfake World. Humanity Is Premium."

In 2020, she became a correspondent for the streaming extension of 60 Minutes, Sixty in 60. In addition to stories on the rise of online extremism, conspiracies, and the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations, she covered the experience of domestic violence survivors during the pandemic, a segment that won a Gracie Award in 2021. She regularly appeared on CBS This Morning during her tenure on Sixty in 60. In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Kevin Canfield wrote that the book was "a candid account of tech’s evolution in the 2010s, a period of absurd revenue streams, noteworthy innovation and alarming scandals...a relatable self-portrait of an ambitious, introspective person’s arrival at a professional crossroads."