Lauren Fielder

Lauren Gonzalez (Fielder) was the co-host of GameSpot TV

Lauren Gonzalez, formerly known as Lauren Fielder, is the former co-host of the ZDTV show GameSpotTV (now known as X-Play, on G4). She is a writer, editor, and journalist in New York who publishes under the name Lauren Gonzalez.

Biography

Gonzalez was the Editor at Large for Ziff Davis' GameSpot.com, as well as a regular contributor to GameSpot and Electronic Gaming Monthly. Gonzalez's television career began in 1994 with WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago, Illinois, and continued through 2000 with ZDTV and TechTV. She appeared on Silicon Spin with John C. Dvorak, as well as other Bay Area television stations. She hosted GameSpot Live, GameSpot's high-definition web casts live from the floor of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles in 2005. While on the West Coast, she wrote for Wired News, Shift, Bust, and other pop culture and technology magazines. She was the news editor of Computer Life magazine before it became Equip in the late 90s. She hosted a behind-the-scenes web show for the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider movie with Angelina Jolie from the set at Pinewood Studios outside of London in 2000. She hosted the film's Hollywood premiere in Los Angeles in 2001. She has interviewed a wide range of people, from game designer Shigeru Miyamoto to singer David Bowie to Pulitzer Prize winning writer Natalie Angier.

Lauren Gonzalez hosts E3 in Los Angeles (2005)

When she left California for New York in the early part of 2002, Gonzalez moved away from technology writing. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and became a guest editor of a literary magazine in New York City. Her article, "The Last Days of the Old Fulton Fish Market", about the last working waterfront in Manhattan, published in The Reading Room literary magazine, along with fiction and nonfiction including a novella by Saul Bellow, "Something To Remember Me By," and stories by Stanley Crouch, Clancy Sigal, and Herbert Gold. She is the creator and editor of a literature and art anthology to benefit those displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The book is called Submerged: Tales From The Basin, and published on September 1, 2008 (StepSister Press). A portion of the book' proceeds go to Levees.org, The 7th Ward Neighborhood Center in New Orleans, and the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She is working on a novel and has completed a non-fiction book called Animal People.

Partial bibliography

• "Submerged: Tales From the Basin". StepSister Press. http://www.stepsisterpress.com/submerged. 
• "Too Bad About the Bird". Storyscape Journal. http://www.storyscapejournal.com/gonzalez-01-02.html. 
• "When Two Tribes Go To War: A History of Video Game Controversy". GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/features/6090892/index.html. 
• "Redefining Games: How Academia is Reshaping Games of the Future". GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/features/6106009/index.html. 

External links

• Levees.org
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• Lauren Fielder at G4tv.com
• The Reading Room
• Heckuvajobgeorge.com