# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/annalee-newitz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:06:14.867Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/annalee-newitz"
name: "Annalee Newitz"
slug: "annalee-newitz"
description: "Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. From 1999 to 2008, Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004, Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015, Newitz was editor-in-chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science, Film Quarterly and Wired. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times."
tagline: "American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Annalee_Newitz_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "non-binary"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1969-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3292767554359922
  historical:           8.609617333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Annaleen"
    handle:    "Annaleen"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/ghidorahnotweak/"
    handle:    "ghidorahnotweak"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.techsploitation.com/"
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    title: "انعلى نيويتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Annalee Newitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalee_Newitz"
    title: "Annalee Newitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalee_Newitz"
    title: "Annalee Newitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalee_Newitz"
    title: "Annalee Newitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalee_Newitz"
    title: "Annalee Newitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalee_Newitz"
    title: "Annalee Newitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalee_Newitz"
    title: "Annalee Newitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalee_Newitz"
    title: "Annalee Newitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4767817"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump