She became a personal technology columnist[2] at The Wall Street Journal in 2014, as part of the team that replaced Walt Mossberg.

[3] Stern graduated from Union College in 2006, where she studied political science and journalism.

In March 2011, she left Engadget with Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, Chris Ziegler and other co-workers to create This Is My Next,[5] which would later become The Verge.

In December 2013, she and Geoffrey A. Fowler were named personal technology columnists at The Wall Street Journal.

[7] In 2016, Stern received a Gerald Loeb Award[8] for her Wall Street Journal videos, including her video review of the Apple Watch (which includes a cameo appearance by Rupert Murdoch)[9] and another where she "rode" on a router that had a shape like a spaceship.