Casey Newton

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Casey Newton
Born (1980-06-19) June 19, 1980 (age 43)
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, [2] a former senior editor at The Verge , [3] and the founder of, and writer for, the Platformer newsletter. [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. [4] [3] Later, he was a blogger and senior writer for CNET [5] [3] until 2013. Afterward, between 2013 and 2020, he covered Silicon Valley at The Verge [6] [2] and became a senior editor. [3] 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, he left to create his own freemium newsletter on Substack called Platformer, [6] [2] [11] with the paid subscription costing US$10 per month. [4] Substack incentivized authors with advances, which Newton turned down, but accepted healthcare stipends. [2] 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, he 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

Casey Newton was born on June 19, 1980. [16] [6] Newton is gay [17] and lives in San Francisco. [16] He graduated from Northwestern University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Journalism. [18]

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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 5 Wiener, Anna (December 28, 2020). "Is Substack the Media Future We Want?". The New Yorker . Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. ↑ Diamond, Stephanie (2013). The Visual Marketing Revolution. Pearson Education. p. 288. ISBN   9780133259674.
  6. 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.
  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. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ Cramer, Jude (October 26, 2020). "Q&A with Casey Newton (BSJ02), Founder of Platformer". Northwestern Alumni Magazine. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
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