Brian Bergstein is the National Technology

Technology

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 Editor for the American Associated Press

Associated Press

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 news agency, based in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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 and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts

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. From 2004 to 2005, he held one of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships

Knight Science Journalism Fellowships

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. He has worked as a journalism instructor at Boston University

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Previously a technology writer for the Associated Press's New York bureau, Bergstein was promoted to Technology Editor in mid-2008 when the AP reorganised to cover stories by topic rather than geographical areas.