Annalee Newitz
American journalist and science fiction author; founding editor of io9.
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- Annalee Newitz is an American journalist and author of fiction and nonfiction, born in 1969.
- Newitz founded and edited io9 for Gawker Media from 2008 to 2015.
- Newitz then joined Ars Technica as tech culture editor and writes opinion for The New York Times.
- The debut novel Autonomous (2017) won a Lambda Literary Award.
Key facts
- Born
- 7 May 19691
- Education
- PhD in English and American Studies, UC Berkeley (1998)1
- Early career
- Techsploitation column, 1999 to 2008; culture editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2000 to 2004; EFF policy analyst, 2004 to 20051
- io9 and Gizmodo
- Founding editor-in-chief of io9, 2008 to 2015, then of Gizmodo1
- Later roles
- Tech culture editor at Ars Technica from December 2015; contributing opinion writer, The New York Times; named editor-in-chief of Starlog in 20261
- Co-founded
- Other magazine (2002 to 2007), with Charlie Jane Anders1
- Novels
- Autonomous (2017, Lambda Literary Award); The Future of Another Timeline (2019)1
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