Natali Terese Morris (née Del Conte; born 1978) is an American online media personality and co-founder of Morris Invest, a real estate investment company. She was formerly a technology news journalist with CNET and CBS.
Natali Terese Morris | |
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 Morris in 2008 | |
| Born | Natali Terese Del Conte 1978 (age 45–46) San Leandro, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, online media personality/podcaster |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | Official website  |
Morris is a former editor for CNET.com and is a former co-host of the technology news podcast Buzz Out Loud, one of CNET.com's flagship podcasts, in addition to Loaded, a daily technology news show on CNET TV. Previously, Loaded was reformatted in Spanish and shown on the Spanish language Univision television network.[citation needed].
Prior to joining CNET, she wrote, produced, and hosted a show "TeXtra" on Podshow. She has written for such publications as Wired, Variety, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, The San Francisco Examiner, PC Magazine, ELLEgirl, The Oakland Tribune, Hispanic Magazine, and The Santa Cruz Sentinel. [citation needed]
Education
editMorris graduated from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, California in 1996 and went on to receive her BA in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Journalism from California State University, East Bay[1] in 2000.
Career
editHer first journalism job out of college was as a staff writer for the Features section of the Oakland Tribune. She stayed there a year before leaving for graduate school in 2001. After graduate school, Morris took a year sabbatical and taught yoga at Canyon Ranch SpaClub at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. When she returned to the Bay Area, she did a short stint in public relations for SHIFT Communications where she represented enterprise technology companies. Morris left SHIFT Communications in order to return to journalism in 2005. She began freelancing for MarketWatch,[2] Variety, The Oakland Tribune, Hispanic Magazine,[3] and others. In late 2005, she was hired as a business reporter for the San Francisco Examiner.[citation needed]
In 2006, Morris joined the news desk at PC Magazine.[4] In October 2006, she was recruited by TechCrunch and left to work there for a short stint.[citation needed]
While working for PC Magazine, Morris began making appearances on Cranky Geeks, which launched her video career quite unexpectedly. Adam Curry noticed her on an episode of Cranky Geeks and contacted her with the idea of doing her own show for the Podshow network.[citation needed] She left TechCrunch in December 2006 and joined Podshow full-time. Morris, Curry, and the production staff at Podshow developed a show called TeXtra in January 2007, and the show launched on February 13, 2007.[citation needed]
Morris left Podshow for CNET TV in 2008, and the TeXtra podcast was shut down.[citation needed] Her new show, Loaded started in February 2008 with coverage from CES 2008.[5]
In addition to her duties at CNET, Morris freelances for Wired, PC Magazine, AppScout, Aware Magazine, and ELLEgirl.[6] She makes regular appearances on The CBS Early Show, and Red Eye (prior to her CBS exclusivity agreement). In January 2009, Morris became co-host of the Buzz Out Loud podcast, taking the place of Molly Wood who left to focus on other CNET projects. [citation needed]
In 2010, Morris and three friends started the motherhood weblog, MommyBeta [7] The blog was nominated in The Bump's 2010 Mommy Blog Awards for Best Baby Journal Blog.[8]
On November 23, 2010, Morris began to host wrestling promotion Chikara new video segment, The Throwdown Lowdown. Morris left CNET on Friday, April 29, 2011.[9] On February 1, 2012, Morris announced Disney Cruise Lines would be releasing videos featuring her as the host.[10]
Personal life
editOn October 21, 2010 on CNET's "The 404" podcast she announced she married Fox News Channel host Clayton Morris in an October 2010 lunchtime ceremony at New York City Hall,[11] and would take the last name Morris both professionally and personally as of mid-November 2010.[12] In 2010 she gave birth to the couple's first child.[13] In 2012 she gave birth to the couple's second child. The family moved from New Jersey to Portugal in 2019. Morris and her husband had initially relocated to Pennsylvania before leaving the country all together. According to Morris, they moved to the country on temporary visas to allow their children to attend schools overseas.[14]
Guest appearances
edit- March 29, 2007: On G4TV's Attack of the Show!, Morris talked about how she is not a fan of the whole Twitter concept.[15]
- April 10, 2007: Marketplace Public Radio interviews Morris about the art of cyber phishing and identity theft.[16]
- April 14, 2007: Today show host Matt Lauer interviews Morris about saving money with on-line purchases through the use of web based coupon codes.[17]
- April 18, 2007: Today show host Matt Lauer interviews Morris about how to save time using the Internet.[18]
- April 18, 2007: Morris joined the boys of CNET's 404 podcast to talk about Jeff Bakalar's visit to see Shigeru Miyamoto, Juno, and movies coming up that weekend.[19]
- April 18, 2007: GeekBrief.TV's Cali Lewis interviews Morris about her new gig as Senior Editor for CNET TV and her new show Loaded. They also talk about her transition from print journalism to video, and her famous Flickr photos of food.[20]
- April 25, 2007: Appears in a CNBC interview about free online gaming with Billy Pidgeon of IDC.[21]
- May 7, 2007: Along with The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show members, Morris discusses BitTorrent's new deals with Hollywood, and her deals with the pod-o-sphere. She also talks about how she started the podcast and what she wants out of being with PodShow.[22]
- January 10, 2008: On G4TV's Best of CES 2008, Morris joined the G4 crew to talk about some of the best gadgets seen at CES this year.[23]
- February 20, 2008: Morris discusses the future of the growing video game industry on CNBC.[24]
- March 29, 2008: On Fox News, Morris discusses the best way to get a Nintendo Wii.[25]
- April 2, 2008: On Revision3's show Internet Superstar, Morris is interviewed regarding her work at CNET TV.[26]
- August 5, 2008 : Morris was a guest on the Fox News program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.[27]
- March 17, 2009 : On The Early Show, Natali Morris showed Chris Wragge the Dell Adamo and iPod Shuffle.
- December 25 and 31, 2009: Morris served as a fill-in anchor on WCBS news broadcasts.[28]
- January 8, 2010: On The Early Show, Natali Morris showed of tech his and her gifts for Valentine's Day.[29]
- January 10, 2010: On The Early Show Morris YouTube's new safety control features that prevent children from seeing dangerous content.[30]
- April 25, 2010: On This Week in Tech (TWiT) episode 245 as a guest with Becky Worley, and Shira Lazar.[31]
- December 19, 2010: On This Week in Tech (TWiT) episode 279 as a guest with Jim Louderback and Marshall Kirkpatrick of "ReadWriteWeb".
- May 1, 2011: On This Week in Tech (TWiT) episode 299 as a guest with Alex Lindsay, Wil Harris and Clayton Morris.
- September 1, 2011: On iPad Today (TWiT) episode 61 - Natali Morris and Apps for Parents as a guest with Sarah Lane.[32]
- February 17, 2013: On This Week in Tech (TWiT) episode 393 as a guest with Jason Hiner, John C. Dvorak and Ryan Shrout.
- May 26, 2013: On This Week in Tech (TWiT) episode 407 as a guest with Larry Magid and Jeff Gerstmann.
- January 12, 2014: On This Week in Tech (TWiT) episode 440 as a guest with Marques Brownlee and John C. Dvorak.
- June 30, 2014: On Marketing Mavericks (TWiT) episode 13 as a guest with Frank Eliason and Steve Faktor.
References
edit- ^ "Get your daily dose of tech news from a CSUEB alumna". 2010-03-10.
- ^ Natali's Story - Talking turkey MarketWatch
- ^ Hispanic Magazine - Natali's Story - Out of the Shadows
- ^ PC Mag - Natali's Story - San Francisco Gets Free FONs for Wi-Fi
- ^ TechCruch - TeXtra’s Natali Morris Leaves Podshow For CNET TV
- ^ "Natali's Story" Archived 2008-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, ellegirl.elle.com; accessed December 26, 2013.
- ^ "MommyBeta - Website Login". mommybeta.squarespace.com.
- ^ "Pregnant.thebump.com". Archived from the original on 2010-11-05. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
- ^ "Natali Morris - Natali's Blog - Letting Go of My Peanuts". Archived from the original on 2011-04-03. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ^ [1] Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine - Natali Hosts Disney Cruise Line Videos
- ^ Justin Yu (October 21, 2010). "The 404 692: Where NDC strikes back (podcast)". Retrieved June 26, 2010.
- ^ "Natali Morris - Natali's Blog - The Journalist Formerly Known As Del Conte". natalidelconte.squarespace.com.
- ^ "Thetechnewsblog.com". Archived from the original on 2010-10-09. Retrieved 2010-11-14.
- ^ "Ex-'Fox and Friends' host moves to Portugal amid fraud accusations from dozens, including several from N.J." NJ.com. July 17, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
- ^ G4 - Morris talks about Twitter.
- ^ Marketplace Public Radio Archived 2008-07-06 at the Wayback Machine - Morris talks about cyber phishing and identity theft.
- ^ NBC Today Show - Morris talks about on-line coupons.
- ^ NBC Today Show - Morris talks about how to save time on the Internet.
- ^ CNET 404 - Morris talks with the Boys of the 404.
- ^ GeekBrief.TV - Interviews Morris about living in NY.
- ^ CNBC[dead link] -Interview about free online gaming.
- ^ Classic Naked Trucker and T-Bones Archived 2009-03-05 at the Wayback Machine - Morris talks about Bittorrent.
- ^ G4 - Morris best of CES 2008 with Kevin Pereira.
- ^ CNBC[dead link] - Morris talks about the video game industry.
- ^ Fox News - Morris talks about best way to get a Nintendo Wii.
- ^ Internet Superstar Episode 10 Archived 2008-10-01 at the Wayback Machine - Episode of Internet Superstar in which Morris is interviewed.
- ^ Red Eye Archived 2009-04-09 at the Wayback Machine - The episode of Redeye w/ Greg Gutfeld on Hulu.
- ^ "Twitter / Natali Morris: Up early to fill in for Ka". Twitter.com. 2009-12-25. Archived from the original on 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
- ^ "Videos - Free video downloads and streaming video - CNET TV". Cnettv.cnet.com. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
- ^ "Videos - Free video downloads and streaming video - CNET TV". Cnettv.cnet.com. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
- ^ "The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte". Twit.tv. Archived from the original on 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
- ^ |url=http://twit.tv/show/ipad-today/61 Archived 2011-12-02 at the Wayback Machine