Veronica Belmont
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Veronica Belmont (born July 21, 1982) is a producer and associate editor for
CNET Networks, Inc. Most notably, she produces, engineers, and co-hosts the increasingly-popular CNET podcast Buzz Out Loud, in which Veronica, Tom Merritt, and Molly Wood discuss the day's technology news. She is also the producer and co-host of two more CNET podcasts called MP3 Insider and CRAVE Gadget Blog, which were both co-hosted by James Kim. CRAVE is a video podcast available on iTunes.
Veronica made her video debut on CNET on April 6th, 2006, on an Insider Secrets segment titled "Give your PC a Mac-over". Since then, she has hosted videos from Maker Faire 2006 and a new series on CNET titled "Out of the Box", showcasing user-submitted videos of user reactions from opening the box of a brand-new gadget.
Originally from Connecticut, Veronica is the daughter of Barbara Belmont (previously Wruck), a former Coleco Vice President, and a father that worked for Hasbro. She attended Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, to study audio production and new media studies. She worked briefly in Boston afterwards, and eventually secured an internship at CNET producing audio content for their business technology group. She was hired full-time six months later to produce their "First Look from the Labs" series. Veronica currently resides in San Francisco, California with Ryan Block, managing editor of Engadget. Veronica also maintains her own website, Music and Medicine.
[edit] Role on Buzz Out Loud
Belmont's role on Buzz Out Loud (BOL) has grown substantially since the beginning of the podcast. Originally she was the sound engineer and producer of the show. She then began to inject her own commentary, and, in September 2006, began to receive official cohost billing. Several of her favorite topics are online gaming, Apple and Macintosh culture, Internet privacy issues, and digital rights management.
She, like the other two hosts of the show, actively participates with the online community of BOL fans through her blog and the Buzz Out Loud User Forum. Her availability, her frequent involvement in forum discussions, and her relative good looks and youth make her a fan favorite.
[edit] Guest appearances
She has also made numerous guest appearances on other technology and gaming podcasts, including:
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- The Instance
- PC Gamer
- East Meets West
- this WEEK in TECH (brief cameo on TWiT 44, full guest host on TWiT 89 and TWiT 93 )[citation needed]
- Tired Thumbs (Former Co-Host)
- twentyhood.
- The MacCast
- this WEEK in TECH Episode 89
Other notable guest appearances include:
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- Vampire Secrets (Virgin in a sack, Virgin #5)
[edit] External links
| CNET |
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| Websites |
| Consumating | Download.com | GameFAQs | Game Rankings | GameSpot | Metacritic | MP3.com | mySimon | TechRepublic | TV.com | Webshots | ZDNet |
| People |
| Veronica Belmont | Ina Fried | Jeff Gerstmann | Greg Kasavin | James Kim | Declan McCullagh | Tom Merritt | Halsey Minor | Alex Navarro | Daniel Terdiman | Molly Wood |
| Other |
| Buzz Out Loud | CNET TV |
