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Meredith Levien and the price of a daily habit
She started selling ads at her college newspaper because the job paid. At The New York Times, Meredith Kopit Levien has made a career of a larger question: what makes journalism worth paying for, day after day?
Big Technology. A better question.
Alex Kantrowitz built a podcast around access to Silicon Valley. Its more interesting business is giving the rest of us a way into the conversation.
Casey Newton and the Art of Leaving the Platform
He built a publication to scrutinize the companies that govern online life. Now, after leaving one platform and one long-running podcast behind, Casey Newton is testing how much independence a journalist can carry into the AI age.
Alex Kantrowitz
Alex Kantrowitz is an independent technology journalist, author, and the founder of Big Technology - one of the most widely read independent tech newsletters in the world with 150,000+ subscribers. A former BuzzFeed News senior reporter and CNBC on-air contributor, he wrote 'Always Day One,' a deeply reported look at how tech titans like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook maintain dominance through constant reinvention. Kantrowitz covers the systems and mechanisms driving big tech, not just the headlines, and has been named one of the ten most cited technology reporters in the world.
Casey Newton & Zoe Schiffer
Casey Newton and Zoe Schiffer are two of the most influential tech journalists working today. Newton founded Platformer, a newsletter covering social networks at the intersection of tech and democracy, co-hosts the Hard Fork podcast with the NYT, and broke landmark investigations into Facebook's content moderation crisis. Schiffer co-ran Platformer as managing editor, authored 'Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter' (Penguin Random House, 2024), and now serves as Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Together they shaped some of the most consequential tech journalism of the 2020s.