Casey Newton — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder of Platformer News (since 2020), a technology newsletter with 170,000 free subscribers as of January 2024.
Co-host of Hard Fork, a weekly technology news podcast for The New York Times, launched in late 2022.
Previously a senior editor at The Verge (2013-2020), where he covered Silicon Valley and wrote The Interface newsletter.
His reporting on the effects of content moderation on workers led to a contracting company cutting ties with Facebook.
Graduated from Northwestern University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Journalism.

Biography

Casey Newton is an American technology journalist, best known as the founder of the Platformer newsletter and co-host of The New York Times' weekly technology news podcast, Hard Fork. His career began with covering the Arizona State Legislature for The Arizona Republic before moving to the San Francisco Chronicle to report on tech companies. He later served as a blogger and senior writer for CNET until 2013.