Career
Morris’s first journalism job out of college was as a staff writer for the Features section of the Oakland Tribune. She stayed there a year before leaving for graduate school in 2001. After graduate school, Morris took a year sabbatical and taught yoga at Canyon Ranch SpaClub at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. When she returned to the Bay Area, she did a short stint in public relations for SHIFT Communications where she represented enterprise technology companies. Morris left SHIFT Communications in order to return to journalism in 2005. She began freelancing for MarketWatch, Variety, The Oakland Tribune, Hispanic Magazine, and others. In late 2005, she was hired as a business reporter for the San Francisco Examiner.
In 2006, Morris joined the news desk at PC Magazine. In October 2006, she was recruited by TechCrunch and left to work there for a short stint.
While working for PC Magazine, Morris began making appearances on Cranky Geeks, which launched her video career quite unexpectedly. Adam Curry noticed her on an episode of Cranky Geeks and contacted her with the idea of doing her own show for the Podshow network. She left TechCrunch in December 2006 and joined Podshow full time. Morris, Curry, and the production staff at Podshow developed a show called TeXtra in January 2007, and the show launched on February 13, 2007.
Morris left Podshow for CNET TV in 2008, and the TeXtra podcast was shut down. Her new show, Loaded started in February 2008 with coverage from CES 2008.
In addition to her duties at CNET, Morris freelances for Wired, PC Magazine, AppScout, Aware Magazine, and ELLEgirl. She also makes regular appearances on The CBS Early Show, and Red Eye (prior to her CBS exclusivity agreement).
In January 2009, Morris became co-host of the Buzz Out Loud podcast, taking the place of journalist Molly Wood who was exiting full time involvement with the podcast in order to focus on other CNET projects.
Morris was one of the judges for the 2010 CES i-Stage competition.
In 2010, Morris and three friends started the motherhood weblog, MommyBeta The blog was nominated in The Bump's 2010 Mommy Blog Awards for Best Baby Journal Blog.
On November 23, 2010 Morris began to host wrestling promotion Chikara new video segment, "The Throwdown Lowdown".
Morris left CNET on Friday, April 29, 2011.
On February 1, 2012, Morris announced Disney Cruise Lines would be releasing videos featuring her as the host.
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