High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Shawn Malone (born 1954) is an American author, columnist, editor, investor, business-man, television producer, and has been the host of several shows on PBS. Currently (2009), Malone is a columnist for ABC News, an op-ed contributor for the Wall Street Journal, a contributing editor to Wired, and the editor-in-chief of Edgelings.com, a website focused on business and technology news in Silicon Valley.