I am an award-winning journalist with an unquenchable passion for technology who has written across a wide range of subjects during 30 years of media reporting in print, online and broadcast media.
Mainstream media roles include Consumer Affairs Reporter, Legal Affairs Reporter, City Hall Reporter, Assistant Chief of Staff, Deputy News Editor online, Media Development Editor and for 10 years as Senior Technology Journalist at The Australian newspaper. Recent specialities include artificial intelligence, telecommunications, digital copyright and consumer product reviews, including reviewing all forms of modern electric transport. If it moves, I’m on it, or in it – and spruiking it.
I’m available for special projects such as freelance news and feature writing, newspaper, TV and radio commentary, technical report writing, media training and strategies, MCing and conducting classes around using specific consumer technology. Feel free to contact me at crgriffo@gmail.com.
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Reviewers tear strips off Samsung
It’s been dubbed ‘peelgate’, the reports of early units of Samsung’s Fold disintegrating in the hands of reviewers.
Netgear streams art to our walls
The most breathtaking aspect of Meural is the choice of more than 30,000 digital artworks and photographs found in its library.
Safety in numbers
Researchers are using artificial intelligence to predict and alleviate natural disasters such as earthquakes, bushfires and floods.
Canva valued at $1bn with a billion subscribers
In five years, Canva chief Melanie Perkins, 31, has turned her start-up graphics design software company into a venture worth $1.4bn.
Washington Post expands tech reporting
With newspapers globally downsizing staff, The Washington Post’s move to hire 11 new technology journalists has grabbed attention.
Warehouse VR a big success
Gallivanting around a 200-square-metre VR experience has morphed into a lucrative international business for Melbourne-headquartered Zero Latency.
Secrets and lies
Federal parliament passed amendments last month to give Australian agencies more tools to access encrypted conversations.
Robot cleans windows, slowly
My resolution for 2019 is to have gleaming robot-cleaned windows at home.
Cars discuss a driverless future
Car-to-car communication is one of the tools the industry is developing to convince us about the safety of driverless cars.
Meural to stream art into homes
Meural is doing to art what Apple Music and Spotify has done to music.
Fancy Stargate shopping?
Going through Stargate portals between worlds is something you associate with sci-fi movies rather than supermarket shopping.
NASA lacks tech to colonise Mars
Colonising Mars could take much longer than previously thought.