Casey Newton

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Casey Newton
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Newton in 2021
Born (1980-06-19) June 19, 1980 (age 45)
La Habra, California [1]
Education B.S.J., Northwestern University
OccupationJournalist
Website cnewton.org

Casey Newton (born June 19, 1980) is an American technology journalist best known for creating the Platformer newsletter. He previously worked as a senior editor at The Verge . [2]

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Career

Newton had been covering the Arizona State Legislature for The Arizona Republic , with an interest in technology as a hobby. Kristen Go, a former coworker at The Arizona Republic, invited him to work at the San Francisco Chronicle to cover tech companies and new technology. [3] [2] Later, he was a blogger and senior writer for CNET [4] [2] until 2013. Afterward, between 2013 and 2020, he covered Silicon Valley at The Verge [5] [6] and became a senior editor. [2] During his time at The Verge, he wrote a daily newsletter called The Interface. [7] [8] His reporting on the effects of content moderation on workers (resulting in PTSD [9] ) has led to a contracting company cutting ties with Facebook. [10]

Platformer

In 2020, Newton left to publish his own newsletter, Platformer, on Substack. [5] [6] [11] with the paid subscription costing US$10 per month. [3] Substack incentivized authors with advances, which Newton turned down, but accepted healthcare stipends. [6] As of January 2024, Platformer had 170,000 subscribers to the free edition. [12] In January 2024, Newton decided to move Platformer off Substack to Ghost, in response to Substack's policies and handling of pro-Nazi publications on its platform. [13]

Hard Fork

In late 2022, Newton began a weekly technology news podcast for the New York Times , called Hard Fork, co-hosting with Kevin Roose. [14] Roose, in 2021, praised Newton with having "opinions [that] hold sway among social media executives". [15]

Personal life

Newton was born on June 19, 1980, and grew up in La Habra, California. [16] [5] [17] He attended Sonora High School, where he served as a student board member and president of the debate club. [17] He graduated from Northwestern University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Journalism. [18]

He is gay [19] and lives in San Francisco. [16]

References

  1. ↑ Roose, Kevin; Newton, Casey (September 8, 2023). "Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions". The New York Times (Podcast). Retrieved September 9, 2023. I don't know what prep school you went to, but on the mean streets of La Habra, California, they offered Spanish and French.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Ingram, Mathew (August 14, 2019). "Casey Newton on dismantling the platforms and taking Facebook's cash". Columbia Journalism Review . Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Goodykoontz, Bill (March 20, 2022). "How a former Arizona Reporter Launched Silicon Valley's Most Coveted Newsletter" . The Arizona Republic . Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  4. ↑ Diamond, Stephanie (2013). The Visual Marketing Revolution. Pearson Education. p. 288. ISBN   9780133259674.
  5. 1 2 3 Tracy, Marc (September 23, 2020). "Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox". New York Times . Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  6. 1 2 3 Wiener, Anna (December 28, 2020). "Is Substack the Media Future We Want?". The New Yorker . Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  7. ↑ Isaac, Mike (March 19, 2019). "The New Social Network That Isn't New at All". New York Times . Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  8. ↑ "'Something really important is happening': Casey Newton on going solo with a paid newsletter". What’s New in Publishing | Digital Publishing News. October 15, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  9. ↑ McClennan, Mark W. (November 16, 2022). "Competition". Ethical Voices. Business Expert Press. ISBN   9781637424193.
  10. ↑ Hertz, Noreena (2021). The Lonely Century. Crown. p. 308. ISBN   9780593135839.
  11. ↑ Smith, Ben (April 11, 2021). "Why We're Freaking Out About Substack". New York Times . Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  12. ↑ Lorenz, Taylor; Oremus, Will (January 12, 2024). "Substack's woes deepen as tech blog leaves over Nazi content". Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  13. ↑ Peters, Jay (January 11, 2024). "Substack keeps the Nazis, loses Platformer". The Verge . Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  14. ↑ Linder, Emmett; Diamond, Sarah (October 28, 2022). "A Podcast for an Ever-Changing Tech Industry". New York Times . Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  15. ↑ Roose, Kevin (January 7, 2021). "The President Is Losing His Platforms". New York Times . Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  16. 1 2 "Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)". Twitter. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  17. 1 2 "Sonora High". Los Angeles Times. June 3, 1998. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
  18. ↑ Cramer, Jude (October 26, 2020). "Q&A with Casey Newton (BSJ02), Founder of Platformer". Northwestern Alumni Magazine. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  19. ↑ Casey Newton [@CaseyNewton] (November 17, 2022). "Ugh now I have to go back to telling people I'm gay the old fashioned way (changing my profile pic to the NOH8 one from 2009)" (Tweet). Retrieved November 17, 2022– via Twitter.
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