Paul Boutin
American journalist (1961–2025)
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Paul Boutin (December 11, 1961 – October 18, 2025[1]) was an American magazine writer and editor who wrote about technology in a pop-culture context.[2]
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| Born | December 11, 1961 Lewiston, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | October 18, 2025 (aged 63) |
Boutin, who began writing for Wired in 1997,[3] wrote for The New York Times from 2003 to 2013,[4] covered emerging technologies for MIT's Technology Review,[5] and was a freelancer for Newsweek.[6] From 2009 to 2010 he covered Internet business and culture for VentureBeat.[7] He was a senior writer and editor for Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag from 2006 to 2008,[8] and a tech columnist for Slate from 2002 to 2008.[9]
His work has also appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, MSNBC, Reader's Digest, Adweek, Engadget, Salon.com, Outside, Cargo, Business 2.0, the Independent Film & Video Monthly, InfoWorld and PC World.[10]
Before turning pro as a journalist, he spent 15 years as an engineer and manager at MIT, where he worked on Project Athena,[11] and at several Internet-related startup companies in Silicon Valley including Splunk.[12] Before his death, he worked as a strategy consultant to tech startups. He was the creator and maintainer of the supervent open-source synthetic event generator.
