Natali Del Conte
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Natali Terese Morris, née
NEE
NEE is a political protest group whose goal was to provide an alternative for voters who are unhappy with all political parties at hand in Belgium, where voting is compulsory.The NEE party was founded in 2005 in Antwerp...

 Del Conte (del kont̪e) (born August 28, 1978, in San Leandro, California
San Leandro, California
San Leandro is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is considered a suburb of Oakland and San Francisco. The population was 84,950 as of 2010 census. The climate of the city is mild throughout the year.-Geography and water resources:...

) is a technology news journalist and online media personality. Morris is a former editor for CNET.com
CNET
CNET is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition...

 and is a former co-host of the technology news podcast Buzz Out Loud
Buzz Out Loud
Buzz Out Loud, "CNET's podcast of indeterminate length," or BOL, as it is affectionately titled by its fans, is a weekly podcast about technology produced by CNET. The show is hosted by Molly Wood, Brian Tong, and producer Stephen Beacham and various rotating guest hosts. Veronica Belmont...

, one of CNET.com's flagship podcasts, in addition to Loaded, a daily technology news show on CNET TV. Previously, Loaded was reformatted in Spanish and shown on the Spanish language Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

 television network.

Prior to joining CNET
CNET
CNET is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition...

, she wrote, produced, and hosted a show called TeXtra on the Podshow network. Natali has also written articles for Wired (magazine)
Wired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...

, Variety Magazine, MarketWatch
MarketWatch
MarketWatch operates a financial information website that provides business news, analysis and stock market data to some 6 million people. MarketWatch offers personal finance news and advice, tools for investors and access to industry research. Along with its flagship website, the company operates...

, TechCrunch
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is a web publication that offers technology news and analysis, as well as profiling of startup companies, products, and websites. It was founded by Michael Arrington in 2005, and was first published on June 11, 2005....

, The San Francisco Examiner, AppScout, PC Magazine
PC Magazine
PC Magazine is a computer magazine published by Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009...

, ELLEgirl, Mexican Monthly, Aware Magazine, The Oakland Tribune
The Oakland Tribune
The Oakland Tribune is a daily newspaper published in Oakland, California, by the Bay Area News Group , a subsidiary of MediaNews Group...

, Hispanic Magazine, Hispanic Trends, and The Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Cruz Sentinel
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is a daily newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, covering Santa Cruz County, California, and owned by MediaNews Group Inc....

.

Biography

Natali is the oldest child of Tom & Wanda Del Conte, and spent her early childhood in Fremont, California. Natali currently resides in New Jersey. On Oct 21, 2010 on CNET's "The 404" podcast she announced she married Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

 host Clayton Morris
Clayton Morris
Clayton Morris is a current co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend on Fox News Channel and a former co-host of the syndicated The Daily Buzz. In addition to his work at FNC, Morris runs a media consulting company called Action Now Consultant Group. Morris has also appeared as a guest host of CNET's...

 in an October 2010 lunchtime ceremony at New York City Hall
New York City Hall
New York City Hall is located at the center of City Hall Park in the Civic Center area of Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street. The building is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as...

, and would take the last name Morris both professionally and personally as of mid-November 2010. On July 26, 2010 she gave birth to her first child, Miles. On October 27, 2011, Morris announced she and husband, Clayton Morris
Clayton Morris
Clayton Morris is a current co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend on Fox News Channel and a former co-host of the syndicated The Daily Buzz. In addition to his work at FNC, Morris runs a media consulting company called Action Now Consultant Group. Morris has also appeared as a guest host of CNET's...

, are expecting their second child.

Education

Morris graduated from Mission San Jose High School
Mission San Jose High School
Mission San Jose High School , is a public, co-educational, four-year secondary school founded in 1964 and located in the Mission San Jose district of Fremont, California, United States...

 in Fremont
Fremont, California
Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs...

, California, in 1996 and went on to receive her BA in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Journalism from California State University, East Bay
California State University, East Bay
California State University, East Bay is a public university located in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The university, as part of the 23-campus California State University system, offers over 100 areas of study...

 in 2000. She then received her MA in Sociology with an emphasis in Mass Media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...

 from the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

 in 2004. As a graduate student, she was fully funded through the James Irvine Foundation
James Irvine Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit organization established to benefit the people of California. It seeks to promote social equity and enrich the cultural and civic life of America’s most populous state through its grants in three areas: the arts, youth and education, and...

 through the Irvine Fellowship. She completed all coursework towards a gender certificate, meaning her work also concentrated around gender studies. Natali was funded to complete a PhD in sociology and finished all required courses towards the doctorate but has not yet taken her qualifying examination or completed a dissertation.

Career

Natali’s first journalism job out of college was as a staff writer for the Features section of the Oakland Tribune. She stayed there a year before leaving for graduate school in 2001. After graduate school, Natali took a year sabbatical and taught yoga at Canyon Ranch SpaClub at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

. When she returned to the Bay Area, she did a short stint in public relations for SHIFT Communications where she represented enterprise technology companies. Natali left SHIFT Communications in order to return to journalism in 2005. She began freelancing for MarketWatch
MarketWatch
MarketWatch operates a financial information website that provides business news, analysis and stock market data to some 6 million people. MarketWatch offers personal finance news and advice, tools for investors and access to industry research. Along with its flagship website, the company operates...

, Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...

, The Oakland Tribune
The Oakland Tribune
The Oakland Tribune is a daily newspaper published in Oakland, California, by the Bay Area News Group , a subsidiary of MediaNews Group...

, Hispanic Magazine, and others. In late 2005, she was hired as a business reporter for the San Francisco Examiner.

In 2006, Natali joined the news desk at PC Magazine
PC Magazine
PC Magazine is a computer magazine published by Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009...

. In October 2006, she was recruited by TechCrunch
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is a web publication that offers technology news and analysis, as well as profiling of startup companies, products, and websites. It was founded by Michael Arrington in 2005, and was first published on June 11, 2005....

 and left to work there for a short stint.

While working for PC Magazine
PC Magazine
PC Magazine is a computer magazine published by Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009...

, Morris began making appearances on Cranky Geeks, which launched her video career quite unexpectedly. Adam Curry
Adam Curry
Adam Clark Curry is a broadcasting and Internet personality well known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a video jockey on the music video channel MTV. In the mid-1990s, Curry was a World Wide Web entrepreneur and one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site...

 noticed her on an episode of Cranky Geeks and contacted her with the idea of doing her own show for the Podshow network. She left TechCrunch
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is a web publication that offers technology news and analysis, as well as profiling of startup companies, products, and websites. It was founded by Michael Arrington in 2005, and was first published on June 11, 2005....

 in December 2006 and joined Podshow full time. Morris, Curry, and the production staff at Podshow developed a show called TeXtra in January 2007, and the show launched on February 13, 2007.

In December 2007 it was announced that Morris would be leaving Podshow for CNET TV
CNET TV
CNET TV is a San Francisco, California based Internet television network showing original programming catering to the niche market of technology enthusiasts, operated by CBS Interactive through their CNET.com brand. CNET TV originated as the television program production arm of CNET Networks in the...

 in 2008, and the TeXtra podcast was shut down. Natali's new show, Loaded started in February 2008 with coverage from CES 2008
CES
CES may stand for:*Closed ecological system, an ecosystem that does not rely on matter exchange with any part outside the system*Constant elasticity of substitution, an economics production function*The ISO 639 code for the Czech language...

.

In addition to her duties at CNET, Morris freelances for Wired
Wired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...

, PC Magazine
PC Magazine
PC Magazine is a computer magazine published by Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009...

, AppScout, Aware Magazine, and ELLEgirl. She also makes regular appearances on The CBS Early Show, and Red Eye
Red eye
Red eye or red-eye or redeye may refer to:-In humans and animals:*Red eye , is a symptom of eye disease.*Red-eye effect, the appearance of red eyes in photos due to the use of a flash*Red eye, an extremely rare eye color...

 (prior to her CBS exclusivity agreement).

In January 2009, Morris became co-host of the Buzz Out Loud podcast, taking the place of journalist Molly Wood
Molly Wood
Molly Kristin Wood is an executive editor at CNET.com and previously a writer for Associated Press, MacHome Journal magazine, and O'Reilly Media. Wood hosted the "Gadgettes"...

 who was exiting full time involvement with the podcast in order to focus on other CNET projects.

In June 2009, it was announced that Natali would be one of the judges for the 2010 CES i-Stage competition.

In 2010, Morris and three friends started the motherhood weblog, MommyBeta The blog was nominated in The Bump
The Bump
The Bump is a knoll on Robertson Point, the east entrance point of Fortuna Bay, South Georgia. Charted by DI in 1929-30 and named descriptively....

's 2010 Mommy Blog Awards for Best Baby Journal Blog.

On November 23, 2010 Natali began to host wrestling promotion Chikara new video segment, "The Throwdown Lowdown," In which she'll bring you a new clip from CHIKARA's vast video vault showcasing high-impact hits and brutal spills each week.

On March 31, 2011, Morris announced in her blog that she will be leaving CNET on Friday, April 29, 2011.

Guest Appearances

  • March 29, 2007: On G4TV's Attack Of The Show, Morris talked about how she is not a fan of the whole Twitter
    Twitter
    Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

     concept.
  • April 10, 2007: Marketplace Public Radio interviews Natali about the art of cyber phishing
    Phishing
    Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT...

     and identity theft
    Identity theft
    Identity theft is a form of stealing another person's identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person's name...

    .
  • April 14, 2007: Today show host Matt Lauer
    Matt Lauer
    Matthew Todd "Matt" Lauer . is an American television journalist best known as the host of NBC's The Today Show since 1997. He was previously a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and Richmond...

     interviews Morris about saving money with on-line purchases through the use of web based coupon codes.
  • April 18, 2007: Today show host Matt Lauer
    Matt Lauer
    Matthew Todd "Matt" Lauer . is an American television journalist best known as the host of NBC's The Today Show since 1997. He was previously a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and Richmond...

     interviews Morris about how to save time using the Internet.
  • April 18, 2007: Morris joined the boys of CNET's 404 podcast to talk about Jeff Bakalar's visit to see Shigeru Miyamoto
    Shigeru Miyamoto
    is a Japanese video game designer and producer. Miyamoto was born and raised in Kyoto Prefecture; the natural surroundings of Kyoto inspired much of Miyamoto's later work....

    , Juno
    Juno (film)
    Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her. Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, J. K....

    , and movies coming up that weekend.
  • April 18, 2007: GeekBrief.TV's Cali Lewis interviews Morris about her new gig as Senior Editor for CNET TV and her new show Loaded. Cali and Natali also talk her transition from print journalism to video, and her famous Flickr
    Flickr
    Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...

     photos of food.
  • April 25, 2007: Appears in a CNBC
    CNBC
    CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...

     interview about free online gaming with Billy Pidgeon of IDC
    International Data Corporation
    International Data Corporation is a market research and analysis firm specializing in information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology. IDC is a subsidiary of International Data Group...

    .
  • May 7, 2007: Along with The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show members, Natali discusses BitTorrent's new deals with Hollywood, and her deals with the pod-o-sphere. She also talks about how she started the podcast and what she wants out of being with PodShow.
  • January 10, 2008: On G4TV's Best of CES 2008, Morris joined the G4 crew to talk about some of the best gadgets seen at CES this year.
  • February 20, 2008: Morris discusses the future of the growing video game industry on CNBC
    CNBC
    CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...

    .
  • March 29, 2008: On Fox News, Morris discusses the best way to get a Nintendo Wii.
  • April 2, 2008: On Revision3's show Internet Superstar, Morris is interviewed regarding her work at CNET TV.
  • August 5, 2008 : Morris was a guest on the Fox News program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
    Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
    Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld is a late-night/early-morning satirical talk show on the Fox News Channel, airing at 3:00 am ET Tuesday through Saturday. The show features panelists and guests discussing the latest news in politics, pop culture, entertainment, business, sports, and religion...

    .
  • March 17, 2009 : On The Early Show
    The Early Show
    The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...

    , Natali Morris showed Chris Wragge
    Chris Wragge
    Christian P. "Chris" Wragge is an American news anchor. He is the co-anchor for New York's WCBS-TV News at 6 p.m. weeknights alongside Dana Tyler. He was previously in the station's 5 p.m. and 11 p.m...

     the Dell Adamo
    Dell adamo
    Adamo is a Dell subnotebook focused on design and mobility. A notebook prototype was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 9, 2009. Dell also claimed it is the "world's thinnest laptop", at 0.65 inches thick...

     and iPod Shuffle
    IPod shuffle
    The iPod Shuffle is a digital audio player designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the smallest model in Apple's iPod family, and was the first to use flash memory...

    .
  • December 25 and 31, 2009: Morris served as a fill-in anchor on WCBS
    WCBS
    WCBS may refer to:Assets of CBS* WCBS , a radio station licensed to New York, New York, United States* WCBS-FM, a radio station licensed to New York, New York, United States...

     news broadcasts.
  • January 8, 2010: On The Early Show
    The Early Show
    The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...

    , Natali Morris showed of tech his and her gifts for Valentine's Day.
  • January 10, 2010: On The Early Show
    The Early Show
    The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...

     Morris YouTube
    YouTube
    YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

    's new safety control features that prevent children from seeing dangerous content.
  • April 25, 2010: On This Week in Tech
    This Week in Tech
    This Week in Tech–casually referred to as TWiT, and formerly known as Revenge of the Screen Savers–is the weekly flagship podcast of the TWiT.tv network...

     (TWiT) episode 245 as a guest with Becky Worley
    Becky Worley
    Becky Worley is an American journalist and broadcaster. She is the tech contributor for Good Morning America on ABC, host and blogger for a web show on Yahoo! Tech.-Personal life:...

    , and Shira Lazar
    Shira Lazar
    Shira Lazar is a Canadian television personality, actress, writer and video blogger who currently resides and works in Los Angeles....

    .
  • December 19, 2010: On This Week in Tech
    This Week in Tech
    This Week in Tech–casually referred to as TWiT, and formerly known as Revenge of the Screen Savers–is the weekly flagship podcast of the TWiT.tv network...

     (TWiT) episode 279 as a guest with Jim Louderback
    Jim Louderback
    James 'Jim' Louderback is the CEO of Revision3. He has had numerous jobs in media companies involved in technology, most notably with TechTV and editor-in-chief of PC Magazine...

     and Marshall Kirkpatrick of "ReadWriteWeb".
  • May 1, 2011: On This Week in Tech
    This Week in Tech
    This Week in Tech–casually referred to as TWiT, and formerly known as Revenge of the Screen Savers–is the weekly flagship podcast of the TWiT.tv network...

     (TWiT) episode 299 as a guest with Alex Lindsay
    Alex Lindsay
    For the Scottish footballer see Alex Lindsay Alex Ben Lindsay, founder of the Pixel Corps, has been involved in computer graphics and computer animation for nearly 20 years. Alex has extensive experience in digital production including print, real-time graphics, multimedia titles, forensic...

    , Wil Harris
    Wil Harris
    Wil Harris is a British technology writer and entrepreneur based just outside of Oxford. He founded, with Justin Gayner, the video network ChannelFlip, former editor in chief of the bit-tech enthusiast website and has contributed to TrustedReviews. Harris resigned from his post at bit-tech at the...

     and Clayton Morris
    Clayton Morris
    Clayton Morris is a current co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend on Fox News Channel and a former co-host of the syndicated The Daily Buzz. In addition to his work at FNC, Morris runs a media consulting company called Action Now Consultant Group. Morris has also appeared as a guest host of CNET's...

    .
  • September 1, 2011: On iPad Today (TWiT) episode 61 - Natali Morris and Apps for Parents as a guest with Sarah Lane
    Sarah Lane
    Sarah Christina Lane is an American television and Internet personality. She is most notably known for her appearances on TechTV's The Screen Savers, G4's Attack of the Show!, and Revision3's popSiren...

    .

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