After that she mainly appeared in guest roles portraying young boys on various television series including Cagney and Lacey, Silver Spoons, V, Alice, Diff'rent Strokes, Newhart, The Wonder Years, and a recurring role on St.

[4][5] Fried is a personal technology writer and generally covered Microsoft related stories in the CNET blog Beyond Binary from 2000 until 2010.

In 2014, she joined Re/code, a tech and business site launched by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.

[7] On April 27, 2011, Fried conducted an exclusive interview with CEO Steve Jobs and other Apple executives about the iPhone location tracking controversy.

[9] Journalism awards: Fried was featured in Advocate magazine's 2014 and 2017 lists of The 50 Most Influential LGBT People in Media.