After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

C. Talbot is married to writer Camille Peri co-editor of the national bestseller Mothers Who Think with whom he has two children. He is also the brother of documentary producer and former child actor Stephen Talbot doctor Cynthia Talbot of Portland Oregon and journalist Margaret Talbot a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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Talbot has worked as a senior editor for Mother Jones magazine and a features editor for the San Francisco Examiner and has written for Time Magazine The New Yorker Rolling Stone and other publications. com. Talbot founded Salon in 1995 when the web was still in its infancy and is considered one of the pioneers of online journalism.