In a new memoir, veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher takes the industry she ‘loves’ to task. ‘I don’t like what you’ve done with the place’

Main Idea: Fortune says Kara Swisher’s new memoir shows how she helped shape tech reporting while also taking Silicon Valley to task for what it has become.

Key Points:

• The article uses stories from Swisher’s memoir, including a wild Google baby shower, to show how close she has been to tech’s biggest names.
• It says Swisher grew from a little-known reporter into a major figure whose reporting helped define how the public sees the tech industry.
• Swisher says she loves tech, but she also worries about its harms and about how the industry has changed over time.
• The piece raises the question of whether Swisher can stay fully neutral when she is so deeply tied to the world she covers.