Sam Biddle

Sam Faulkner Biddle is an American technology journalist. He is a reporter for The Intercept, and was formerly a senior writer at Gawker, the editor of the news website Valleywag, and a reporter at Gizmodo.

Sam Biddle attended college at Johns Hopkins, where he was a member of the Delta Phi fraternity and majored in philosophy.

Biddle was formerly the editor of Valleywag, a technology news website owned by Gawker Media. In October 2014, he announced that he was leaving Valleywag and taking a sabbatical, after which he took another journalist position at a different Gawker Media site. His writing focuses on Internet issues, such as cybersecurity and online political activism. In 2014, he was one of Vanity Fair's "News Disrupters," a "new breed of journo-entrepreneurs [striking] out on their own, cutting to the chase and influencing the masses without (much of) a filter."

Biddle's articles have often been controversial, at times criticizing and making fun of technology companies and affluent people in the San Francisco Bay Area. New York Magazine has referred to Biddle as "perhaps the most hated journalist in the Bay Area", while an article in PandoDaily attacked him as a "grotesque hypocrite".

Biddle and Gawker have been targets of the Gamergate controversy, an Internet campaign related to feminism and ethics in video games media. In response to a tweet by Biddle saying "Bring Back Bullying", Gamergate supporters posted a list of Gawker's advertisers online, and contacted them in a campaign to force them to pull ad campaigns from Gawker websites.