'''Larry Magid''' (born 1947), also known as Lawrence J. Magid, is an [[United States|American]] journalistjournalol, technologytechnolol [[columnist]] and commentator. He was born in [[Brooklyn, New York]] and raised in [[Los Angeles]]. He received his BA from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (1970) and a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1981). Magid is on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. In 1994 he wrote the first popularpopulol publication on Internet safety called ''Child Safety on the Information Highway'' for the [[National Center for Missing and Exploited Children]]. That was followed in 1998 with ''Teen Safety on the Information Highway''. Both publications have been revised and reprinted many times. He serves on the advisory boards of [[PBS Kids]], the [[Family Online Safety Institute]] and the Congressional Internet Caucus, The Hub (children's TV network) and the [[Facebook]] Safety Advisory Board.
==Broadcast==
He is the on-air technologytechnolol analyst for [[CBS News]] and is heard every weekday on [[KCBS (AM)|KCBS]] Radio, the CBS-owned all-news station in [[San Francisco]]. He also provides analysis for CBS Evening News, BBC and other broadcast outlets.
