David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is an American technology writer and TV science presenter. He is a personal technology columnist for
Yahoo Tech, a tech correspondent for
CBS News Sunday Morning, a columnist for
Scientific American and a former technology columnist for
The New York Times. He is also the host of
NOVA ScienceNow on
PBS and was the host of the
NOVA specials
Making Stuff in 2011 and
Hunting the Elements in 2012. Pogue has written or co-written seven books in the
For Dummies series (including
Macintosh computers,
magic,
opera, and
classical music). In 1999, he launched his own series of computer
how-to books called the
Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles covering a variety of Macintosh and
Windows operating systems and applications. Among the dozens of books Pogue has authored is
The World According to Twitter (2009), written in collaboration with around 500,000 of his
Twitter followers, and
Pogue's Basics (2014), which was a
New York Times bestseller.