Caitlin Dewey
Caitlin Dewey Rainwater (née Dewey) is an American journalist, essayist and cultural commentator who runs the Links I Would G-Chat You If We Were Friends newsletter.
As of May 2024, she works as a freelance writer. She previously wrote for the Buffalo News,[1] which she joined after leaving The Washington Post where she founded the paper's blog, The Intersect.
Early life and education
[edit]Dewey grew up in Buffalo, New York.[2] She graduated from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she won The New York Times' 2012 "Modern Love: College Essay Contest".[3]
Career
[edit]Dewey writes for the Buffalo News and was formerly[when?] with The Washington Post where she founded the Post's blog the Intersect. Dewey was also the food policy writer for Wonkblog, another Post blog. She wrote an 82-week column for the Post entitled "What Was Fake On The Internet This Week" (the blog ended in December 2015).[4]
Her reporting on Gamergate, the harassment of women in the online gaming world, prompted a Congressional inquiry into the issue. She has won awards from, among other organizations, the Society of Features Journalism.[2]
Dewey published a daily newsletter about internet culture, Links I would GChat you if we were friends from 2014 to 2016.[5] The work was a Webby Award honoree in 2016.[6] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dewey resurrected the newsletter as a weekly email.[7]
Personal life
[edit]She married Jason Rainwater, whom she met online.[8] After adopting a dual last name, she found that few people gave equal weight to both names.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Caitlin Dewey". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Caitlin Dewey joins Financial staff". The Washington Post. 2016-11-21.
- ^ Loughlin, Wendy (2012-01-03). "Student wins national New York Times essay contest". S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
- ^ "Digital Culture Critic Abandons 'Fake On The Internet' Column". NPR. December 21, 2015.
- ^ "5 Links We Would GChat You If We Were Friends". WNYCstudios.org. NYC. December 16, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
- ^ "Nominee, Honoree Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends". webbyawards.com. NYC. December 16, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
- ^ "Introducing... Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Quarantined". linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com. NYC. March 30, 2020. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
- ^ Miya, Lee (November 24, 2017). "Winning the College Contest Means Everything Is Rosy, Right?". The New York Times. Retrieved November 24, 2017.
- ^ "Watch out for Wikipedians". linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com. September 4, 2020. Retrieved September 19, 2020.