Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. She is the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has written for periodicals such as Popular Science and Wired. From 1999 to 2008 she wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000–2004 she was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004 she became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She also co-founded other magazine with C.J. Anders, a periodical which ran from 2002–2007. From 2008–2015 she was Editor-in-Chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendent Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. As of 2016, she is Tech Culture Editor at the technology site Ars Technica.

Newitz was born in 1969, and grew up in Irvine, California. She graduated from Irvine High School, and in 1987 moved to Berkeley, California. In 1996, Newitz started doing freelance writing. In 1998, she completed a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley, with a dissertation on images of monsters, psychopaths, and capitalism in twentieth century American popular culture, the content of which later appeared in book form from Duke University Press.

Newitz became a full-time writer and journalist in 1999 with an invitation to write a weekly column for the Metro Silicon Valley weekly, a column which then ran in various venues for nine years. Newitz then served as the culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian from 2000–2004.

Newitz was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 2002-2003, supporting her as a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004–2005 she was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from 2007–2009 she was on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, a Hugo award-winning author and commentator, co-founded Other magazine.

In 2008, Gawker media asked Newitz to start a blog about science and science fiction, dubbed io9, for which she served as editor-in-chief from its founding until 2015 when it merged with Gizmodo, another Gawker media design and technology blog property; Newitz then took on the same leadership of the new venture. In November 2015, Newitz announced she was leaving Gawker to join Ars Technica where she has been employed as Tech Culture Editor since December 2015.

Newitz is the daughter of two English teachers: her mother, Cynthia, at a high school, and her father, Marty, at a community college. As her father was Jewish and her mother was a white Southerner former Methodist, Newitz describes herself as "biethnic".

• Co-founder, Bad Subjects, 1992
• Co-founder, other (magazine), 2002
• Co-founder, Editor in chief, io9.com, Gawker Media's science and science fiction blog
• Editor in chief, Gizmodo, Gawker Media's technology blog
• Tech culture editor, Ars Technica

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Newitz's work has been published in Popular Science, Wired, Salon.com, New Scientist, Metro Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and at AlterNet. In addition to these print and online periodicals, she has published the following short stories and books:

Short stories

• "The Great Oxygen Race" Hilobrow magazine, 2010
• "The Gravity Fetishist", Flurb magazine, 2010

Books

• White Trash: Race and Class in America (Routledge Press, 1997)
• The Bad Subjects Anthology (New York University Press, 1998)
• Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Duke University Press, 2006)
• She's Such a Geek co-edited, with Charlie Anders (Seal Press, 2006)
• Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday, 2013)

• Newitz, Annalee (September 16, 1999). "Burning the Man". Metro Silicon Valley. Retrieved January 25, 2016. 
• AAN Staff (June 19, 2002). "Bay Guardian Editor Named Knight Science Fellow". altweeklies.com. Retrieved January 25, 2016. 
• Newitz, Annalee (July 2, 2008). "My Last Column". AlterNet. Retrieved January 25, 2016. 
• "Spotlight on: Annalee Newitz, Author and Editor". Locus Magazine. January 8, 2014. Retrieved January 25, 2016.