Jon Fortt

Fortt was born on Long Island, New York. His family later moved to Washington, D.C. He attended Montgomery Blair High School, where as president of the Student Government Association in the 1993-94 school year he was among the students who organized protests for a new school in its current location, then known as the Kay tract.[10][11] In his senior year he won the Knight-Ridder Minority Journalism Scholarship.[10] He attended DePauw University, where he was part of the Media Fellows honors program. There he worked at The DePauw student newspaper and became editor.[12][10] He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Writing.[13][14]

Fortt began his post-college career at the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was assigned the technology beat in 1999 after another reporter suddenly quit. Later that year he moved to California to join the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's hometown newspaper.[15][16] In 2006 he went to Business 2.0 magazine as a senior editor in charge of the "What Works" section.[17] In 2007, he joined Fortune Magazine as a senior writer covering large companies including Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.[18] [19] Fortt began working for CNBC in 2010 as a Silicon Valley-based technology correspondent.[20][21] CNBC brought him to its New York-area headquarters in 2013.[22]