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Laurie Segall
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american journalist”. Today it says “american journalist and media executive”.
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Laurie Segall (born August 18, 1985) is an American journalist.1 Noted for interviewing leaders in technology, including Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook , among others, she was the senior technology correspondent and an editor-at-large for CNN for more than a decade. Segall also developed and hosted Mostly Human , an investigative docu-series that explored the impact of technology on sex, love, and death. "Mark Zuckerberg: "One of the biggest mistakes" of Facebook is not digging deeper into Cambridge Analytica" .
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american journalist
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american journalist and media executive
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