Tom Watson

Who is Tom Watson?

Tom Watson is an American journalist, entrepreneur and blogger.

Watson is the author of CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World, president of CauseWired, a consulting company he founded, and a columnist for Forbes. Previously, he co-founded national philanthropic services company Changing Our World, Inc. At Changing Our World, Watson created onPhilanthropy, an online resource for philanthropy professionals; he often comments on and writes frequently about the intersection of media and philanthropy. In recent years he has served as a board member of BronxWorks, the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, where he helped to create the popular DMIblog, and the New York Software Industry Association.

Watson was the founder and editor of newcritics.com, an online journal of media and arts criticism launched in January, 2007 and shuttered in June, 2009.

Watson was co-founder and co-editor with Jason Chervokas of @NY, the pioneering Internet news and information service that chronicled the rise of New York’s technology sector - Silicon Alley - beginning in 1995. The company was acquired by Internet.com in April 1999.