Therese Poletti

Freelance writer, tour guide, flâneuse

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Freelance Writer at Freelance
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Senior Columnist at MarketWatch at Dow Jones
    Oct 2007 - May 2025 · 17 yrs 8 mos

    As part of the MarketWatch tech reporting team, I currently write the "Tech Tales" column about Silicon Valley and the tech business at large. I write more frequent MarketWatch First Takes, breaking news commentary focused on the technology sector, where we explain and analyze news, earnings and other developments in tech to help investors make the best decisions in understanding the tech world.

  • Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger at Freelance
    Jan 2005 - Sep 2008 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Published in October 2008 by Princeton Architectural Press. Book chronicles life and times of San Francisco architect Timothy Pflueger, one of the city's great designers of the Jazz Age and the 30s and 40s.

  • Staff Writer at San Jose Mercury News
    2000 - 2007 · 7 yrs

  • Correspondent at Reuters
    1989 - 2000 · 11 yrs