Shannon Bond
Shannon Bond is a business correspondent at NPR, covering technology and how Silicon Valley's biggest companies are transforming how we live, work and communicate.
Bond joined NPR in September 2019. She previously spent 11 years as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times in New York and San Francisco. At the FT, she covered subjects ranging from the media, beverage and tobacco industries to the Occupy Wall Street protests, student debt, New York City politics and emerging markets. She also co-hosted the FT's award-winning podcast, Alphachat, about business and economics.
Bond has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School and a bachelor's degree in psychology and religion from Columbia University. She grew up in Washington, D.C., but is enjoying life as a transplant to the West Coast.
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The Tesla and SpaceX mogul said he needs to make sure the fake accounts "do indeed represent less than 5%" of Twitter's users, as the company has estimated. -
The billionaire said it was a "mistake" for the social network to ban the former president after the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection.
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More people used Facebook in the first quarter than analysts expected, easing concerns about competition from TikTok.
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The sale caps a dizzying saga for Twitter and Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a prolific user of the social media platform.
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To ward off Elon Musk, Twitter's board will have to show it finally has a plan to address long-standing business problems.
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The billionaire Tesla CEO says he's lined up $46.5 billion to fund his offer to buy Twitter and take the company private.
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Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter in a $43 billion takeover, which the company's board is attempting to resist. What's at stake, and where is all this going?
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Elon Musk says Twitter should be an arena for free speech. What changes does he want to bring to the social network, and how are Twitter board members trying stop his takeover bid?
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Musk's offer comes after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO became Twitter's largest shareholder. Musk says he will unlock Twitter's potential.
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Twitter users have long asked for an edit button and now the company says it's finally coming. But skeptics warn it could change Twitter — and not for the better.
