Casey Newton (born June 19, 1980) is an American technology journalist,[2] a former senior editor at The Verge,[3] and the founder of, and writer for, the Platformer newsletter.
Kristen Go, a former coworker at The Arizona Republic, invited him to work at the San Francisco Chronicle to cover tech companies and new technology.
[7][8] His reporting on the effects of content moderation on workers (resulting in PTSD[9]) has led to a contracting company cutting ties with Facebook.
[4] Substack incentivized authors with advances, which Newton turned down, but accepted healthcare stipends.
[13] In late 2022, he began a weekly technology news podcast for the New York Times, called Hard Fork, co-hosting with Kevin Roose.