About Me
Wylie Wong is a journalist who splits his time between Phoenix, Arizona and San Jose, California.
Before becoming a freelance writer, he was a business and technology reporter for CNET News.com, where he covered some of tech’s biggest players, including Microsoft, Oracle and Cisco Systems. At CNET, he won a national award for investigative reporting by the Society of Professional Journalists and was nominated for a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
Wong is co-author of “Giants: Where Have You Gone,” a book on former San Francisco Giants players published by Sports Publishing LLC in 2005. He currently writes a Giants blog for the San Jose Mercury News.
Wylie previously worked for two other tech publications — Computerworld and CRN. Before that, he was a reporter for several daily newspapers in the West Coast, including the Contra Costa Times newspaper chain, where he covered the city of Berkeley, UC-Berkeley and environmental and Asian American issues.
He also previously created and edited Blast: the Irreverent Webzine, an online magazine with a heavy bent on humor and Asian American issues.