Adam Tanner

Adam Tanner is writer in residence at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the author of What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data--Lifeblood of Big Business--and the End of Privacy as We Know It , which the Washington Post named one of fifty notable works of nonfiction in 2014. Tanner served as a Reuters correspondent from 1995 to 2011, including as bureau chief for the Balkans (2008-2011) and San Francisco (2003-2008). He was also posted in Berlin, Moscow,...See more

Adam Tanner is writer in residence at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the author of What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data--Lifeblood of Big Business--and the End of Privacy as We Know It , which the Washington Post named one of fifty notable works of nonfiction in 2014. Tanner served as a Reuters correspondent from 1995 to 2011, including as bureau chief for the Balkans (2008-2011) and San Francisco (2003-2008). He was also posted in Berlin, Moscow, and Washington, DC. He has appeared on CNN, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, the BBC, and VOA; has written for magazines including Scientific American , Forbes , Fortune , MIT Technology Review , and Slate ; and has lectured across the United States and internationally. For the 2016-17 academic year he is the Snedden Chair in Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. See less