Nellie Bowles

Nellie Bowles is an American journalist. She is noted for covering the technology world of Silicon Valley. She worked as a journalist for the English-language Argentine daily the ''Buenos Aires Herald'', the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', ''The California Sunday Magazine'',Adweek, Richard Horgan, December 11, 2015
Guardian US Boosts Tech Reporter Ranks
Retrieved February 11, 2018, "...Nellie Bowles (pictured) ... a contributing writer to The California Sunday magazine ... working on a book for Hachette and TV show based on one of her stories for 20th Century Fox .. previously covered the tech world for Re/code..." the technology journalism website ''Recode'', the British daily ''The Guardian'' beginning in 2016, then for ''Vice News''Todd Spangler, June 1, 2016, Variety magazine
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Retrieved February 11, 2018, "... Vice News employees are ... Nellie Bowles, formerly with the Guardian and Vox Media’s Recode, who will head up the soon-to-open San Francisco office and cover tech..." and most recently ''The New York Times''.

Career

From 2017 to 2021, Bowles covered technology for the ''New York Times'' in the San Francisco Bay Area.Agility, June 9, 2017
Journalists on the move – Week of June 5
Retrieved February 11, 2018, "Notable journalist and media industry moves: ...The New York Times: Nellie Bowles, correspondent for VICE News, joins as business reporter on technology and digital culture beat..." In 2020, she was awarded the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative reporting along with two colleagues for her investigation into online child abuse; according to editor Dean Murphy, their "deep, persistent and compassionate reporting" served to "hold both government and big tech accountable, and tell the stories of untold children who have endured this abuse in silence." New York Times, June 8, 2020, Staff writers
Times Investigation Wins Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
Retrieved June 10, 2020, "...'Journalists seldom write about this horrific abuse beyond high-profile arrests and stings,' ... said Dean Murphy, who edited the series...." She covers the technology and business world of hi-tech startups and venture capital, and she has written about personalities such as Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt, and iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman.Billboard magazine, Andrew Flanagan, August 28, 2014
Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman Channels Dissent and Tents at Burning Man
Retrieved February 11, 2018, "... intrepid Nellie Bowles, writing for Re/code, visited Pittman at his Burning Man home, a "spider house" or "Dhome" that Pittman had... designed? ... Pittman's reasons for sleeping in the desert ... are quite obvious, according to Bowles' ..." She covered the exclusive conference of technology CEOs called Further Future,May 3, 2016, Maya Kosoff, Vanity Fair
INSIDE THE ELITE, INVITE-ONLY FUTURISM FESTIVAL FOR TECH C.E.O.S: It’s like TED Talks and Burning Man combined, but harder to get into than either
Retrieved February 11, 2018, "...Nellie Bowles got an inside look at the second-annual Further Future, which took place last weekend...." and has written about subjects such as doxxingAndrea Grimes, September 26, 2017, Dame Magazine
IS DOXXING EVER OKAY? Nazis who get doxxed are not victims. But so far the media has failed to get the message
Retrieved February 11, 2018, "....As with all Times stories that sit at the intersection of culture and politics, Bowles’s piece includes some obligatory, nonspecific handwringing over “murky” ethics, ... it is a very complete New York Times story...." and cryptocurrencies. She appeared twice on the ''Charlie Rose'' nationally broadcast television interview show.

Her reporting is often controversial; for example, her account of her interview with Jordan Peterson attracted much attention.Nellie Bowles, The New York Times, May 18, 2018
Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy: He says there’s a crisis in masculinity. Why won’t women — all these wives and witches — just behave?
Retrieved June 10, 2018The New Republic, Jeet Heer, May 21, 2018
Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths
Retrieved June 10, 2018, "...
“The messages he delivers,” Bowles wrote, “range from hoary self-help empowerment talk (clean your room, stand up straight) to the more retrograde and political (a society run as a patriarchy makes sense and stems mostly from men’s competence; the notion of white privilege is a farce)...."Jonathan Foiles, May 22, 2018, Slate magazine

Retrieved June 14, 2018, ".... Nellie Bowles recounts one such session in her recent New York Times profile of Peterson..." She has moderated televised discussions on the subject of free speech in the digital age,John Battelle, May 17, 2018, NewsCo Shift
A Magic Shield That Lets You Be An Assh*le? Now that digital platforms drive physical consequences, what does “free speech” really even mean anymore?
Retrieved June 14, 2018, "...Cindy Cohn Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Carol Christ Chancellor, UC Berkeley, and moderator Nellie Bowles of The New York Times..." and she has written about gender equality in the tech world.Thacher Schmid, March 12, 2018, Willamette Week
While Startups Increasingly Move to Portland, a New York Times Reporter Warns That There’s a “Gender Problem” in Tech: Nellie Bowles will be in Portland next month to speak at TechfestNW on the inclusivity, or lack thereof, in tech culture.
Retrieved June 17, 2018, "...Bowles has written a number of groundbreaking stories on the "gender problem" in tech, including a profile of a "contrarian" fringe element of men leading a backlash against women asserting their rights...." Her reports regarding the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians have sometimes generated additional controversy.

In 2021, Bowles along with Bari Weiss launched ''Common Sense'' on Substack''.'' The publication changed names to The Free Press in 2022.

Personal life

Bowles is a descendant of Henry Miller, who was dubbed the "Cattle King of California" and was at one point one of the largest land-owners in the United States, and a descendant of Thomas Crowley, who founded the transportation and logistics company Crowley Maritime. Bowles graduated from Columbia University in 2010. She is married to political commentator Bari Weiss, a relationship she says led her to convert to Judaism. She also says the conversion was part of a personal drive to be more empathy-driven in her reporting.

She takes temporary breaks from addictive technologies such as social media with a practice dubbed dopamine fasting.

Filmography

*''Vice News Tonight'' on HBO

Selected bibliography

*"Video Games and Online Chats Are 'Hunting Grounds' for Sexual Predators", ''The New York Times'', December 7, 2019, part 3 of the "Exploited" series that won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Gerald Loeb Award

References

External links

Nellie Bowles profile
at Muck Rack

Interview
Bowles interviews Eric Swalwell on Inforum

Nellie Bowles and Jessica Lessin on Obligations in Tech
YouTube video

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Living people
Journalists from California
Columbia College (New York) alumni
People from San Francisco
American women journalists
The New York Times people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American LGBT writers
21st-century American journalists
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Investigative
21st-century American women writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Converts to Judaism
LGBT Jews