Contact: Sevda Eris, seris@kqed.org, 415.553.2835
KQED announces Christina Farr as the host and editor of Future of You, the new multimedia blog launching March 12 and covering the intersection of new technologies, health care and medicine. Farr is a San Francisco-based journalist who most recently covered Apple and health-technology for Reuters and, before that, VentureBeat. Future of You is a project of KQED's science unit, which is the largest science and environment reporting unit in California.
Farr’s work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Bay Citizen and SFGate.com. She has appeared as a featured expert on NBC, ABC and Reuters TV, among others, and frequently speaks at health and technology conferences. She is also co-founder of Ladies Who Vino, a networking group for women in technology and business. Earlier this month she was awarded "One To Watch Out For" by Women 2.0.
“Christina will cover a booming digital health industry that aims to give patients more power and to disrupt health care much like the way Amazon changed publishing and iTunes has changed the music industry,” says Andrea Kissack, KQED’s senior science editor leading the Future of You initiative. “We are thrilled to be on the frontlines of covering how advances in genetics, crowd sourcing, wireless connectivity and other technologies are changing health care and just as excited that Christina will be leading our efforts. She is a very smart and thoughtful journalist who has deep knowledge of this emerging trend.”
Christina was born and raised in London, where she received an M.A. from University College London. She moved to the U.S. to attend Stanford University, where she earned a graduate degree from Stanford School of Journalism.