Podcasts like Sway

Kara Anne Swisher ( KAIR-ə) is an American journalist. She is a contributing editor at New York, the host of the podcast Sway, and the co-host of the podcast Pivot. From 2018 to 2022, she was an opinion writer for The New York Times, before re-joining Vox Media.

Swisher, who previously wrote for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, co-founded Recode, the All Things Digital conference and the online publication All Things D. She has covered the business of the internet since 1994.

Swisher lived in Roslyn Harbor, New York until her father died when she was five years old. Afterward her family moved to Princeton, New Jersey where she was raised.

She wrote for The Hoya, Georgetown's school newspaper, and later left that paper to write for The Georgetown Voice, the university's news magazine.