Laurie Segall
American journalist and media executive
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Laurie Segall is an American journalist and media executive. She is the CEO of Mostly Human, a New York-based entertainment media company she co-founded in 2019. Previously the senior technology correspondent and an editor-at-large for CNN, her work focuses on technology and its societal, cultural, and human impact.
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| Born | August 18, 1985 Atlanta, Georgia |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (BA) |
| Occupations | Journalist, media executive |
| Years active | 2009-present |
| Notable work | Special Characters: Adventures with Tech Titans and Misfits |
| Spouse | Jon Jones (m. 2022) |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Gracie Award (Revenge Porn: The War on Women) Webby Award ("My Deepfake Relationship with Mark Zuckerberg") |
| Website | mostlyhuman.com |
Early life and education
Career
2008-2018: CNN
Following her graduation, Segall worked at CNN as a news desk assistant. She began covering technology in 2009, reporting on startups including Twitter, Instagram and Uber. She did several interviews with Tim Cook, [3] among others, and interviewed Mark Zuckerberg at the height of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.[4] She also conducted early interviews with founders including Sam Altman, Jack Dorsey (who founded Twitter), and Travis Kalanick, who founded Uber.[5]
In 2015, she wrote, hosted, and executive produced Revenge Porn: The War on Women, which won a Gracie Award in 2016 for best original online programming.[6] In 2017, she created, hosted and executive produced Mostly Human with Laurie Segall, a six-part documentary series that explored sex, love and death through the lens of technology, covering the “seemingly non-physically confrontational medium that is the internet as fiction begins to mimic reality.” [7]
2019-present: Mostly Human, 60 Minutes, Special Characters
Segall left CNN in 2019 and co-founded Dot Dot Dot, a content studio that initially focused on the human impact of technology. Rebranded as Mostly Human Media in 2023, the studio's initial series was First Contact, an IHeart-distributed podcast. "A blueprint of sorts to the types of stories the new company might tell", early episodes covered the rise of dating bots, artificial empathy, and online privacy.[8] She was the first reporter to cover the suicide of a teenage boy obsessed with a chatbot on Character.ai; her segment brought international attention to chatbot addiction.[9][10][11] Mostly Human's "My Deepfake Relationship with Mark Zuckerberg", which examined the future of disinformation, won a Webby Award in 2025; in the five-word tradition of the Webbys, in accepting the award Segall said "Deepfake World. Humanity Is Premium."[12]
In 2020, she became a correspondent for the streaming extension of 60 Minutes, Sixty in 60.[13] In addition to stories on the rise of online extremism, conspiracies,[14] and the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations, she covered the experience of domestic violence survivors during the pandemic, a segment that won a Gracie Award in 2021. [citation needed] She regularly appeared on CBS This Morning during her tenure on Sixty in 60.[15][2]
Segall's memoir, Special Characters: My Adventures with Tech's Titans and Misfits, was published by HarperCollins in March 2022.[16] In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Kevin Canfield wrote that the book was "a candid account of tech’s evolution in the 2010s, a period of absurd revenue streams, noteworthy innovation and alarming scandals...a relatable self-portrait of an ambitious, introspective person’s arrival at a professional crossroads."[5]
Personal life
Segall and her husband, Jon Jones, were married in 2022. The founder of Relation Agency, a social impact media and creative shop, he was Barack Obama’s first digital strategist.[17]