Bart Ziegler

Background

About Bart Ziegler

After 27 years at The Wall Street Journal, most recently as a senior publishing editor, I took early retirement amid the pandemic in 2021. I now am a freelance writer for the WSJ on topics including artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, green energy and technology in general. Find my work here: During my WSJ career I edited major stories on politics, the economy, health care, foreign affairs and other topics, many of which ran on the front page of the nation's most-read newspaper and on the home page of wsj.com. In this job I worked closely with other editors, reporters, bureau chiefs, graphics designers and the photo staff. I have been a journalist since my teens, serving as editor of my high school newspaper and writing articles for a newspaper in my hometown. I later became editor of the student newspaper at college, wrote for the Boston Globe as a co-op student (where many of my articles appeared on page one), spent six months working in Ed Markey's offices in Boston and Washington (then a congressman, now a senator) and joined the Associated Press upon graduation. At the AP I worked in Tulsa, Providence, Boston and New York, where I became the news agency's first full-time technology reporter. I interviewed Bill Gates over a one-on-one dinner, pressed IBM's chairman as the company began to collapse, broke news about new Intel chips, pestered then-Apple CEO John Sculley about Apple's cloudy future-believe it or not it was in trouble in the '90s-and broke the story about IBM working with Time Warner on a pioneering online TV venture. After a stint at Business Week as telecommunications editor, I joined The Wall Street Journal to cover the collapse, and later renaissance, of IBM. In my reporting I moved atoms under a scanning-tunneling microscope at an IBM research center and traveled with a top company executive on a corporate jet. My Journal career included stints as technology news editor, deputy editor of the Marketplace page, deputy editor of Weekend Journal and auto editor on the news desk, where I helped oversee coverage of the near-death and federal rescue of GM and Chrysler. Currently I write as a freelancer for the WSJ's Journal Reports sections on topics including electric vehicles, green energy and AI. I also occasionally write about plants and gardening for the WSJ. For a number of years I wrote an online column for the WSJ called Weekend Gardener, in which I chronicled my adventures, and misadventures, in my yard.