Caitlin Dewey
{{Short description|American journalist}}
Caitlin Dewey Rainwater ({{nee}} Dewey) is an American journalist, essayist and a 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,{{cite web |title=Caitlin Dewey |url=https://buffalonews.com/users/profile/caitlin%20dewey/ |website=The Buffalo News |access-date=25 January 2022}} which she joined after leaving The Washington Post where she founded the paper's blog," The Intersect".
Early life and education
Dewey grew up in Buffalo, New York. 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".{{Cite web |url=http://newhouse.syr.edu/news-events/news/student-wins-national-new-york-times-essay-contest |title=Student wins national New York Times essay contest |last=Loughlin |first=Wendy |website=S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications |publication-date=2012-01-03}}
Career
Dewey writes for the Buffalo News and was formerly{{When|date=April 2021}} 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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/12/21/460602085/digital-culture-critic-abandons-fake-on-the-internet-column|title=Digital Culture Critic Abandons 'Fake On The Internet' Column|website=NPR|publication-date=December 21, 2015}}
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2016/11/21/caitlin-dewey-joins-financial-staff/|title=Caitlin Dewey joins Financial staff|newspaper=The Washington Post|publication-date=2016-11-21}}
Dewey published a daily newsletter about internet culture, Links I would GChat you if we were friends from 2014 to 2016.{{cite news |date=December 16, 2015 |title=5 Links We Would GChat You If We Were Friends
|url= https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/notetoself/episodes/actually-important-2015|work=WNYCstudios.org |location=NYC |access-date=December 16, 2015}} The work was a Webby Award honoree in 2016.{{cite news |date=December 16, 2015 |title=Nominee, Honoree Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends
|url=https://winners.webbyawards.com/2016/websites/general-websites/email-newsletters/162399/links-i-would-gchat-you-if-we-were-friends|work=webbyawards.com |location=NYC |access-date=December 16, 2019}} In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dewey resurrected the newsletter as a weekly email.{{cite news |date=March 30, 2020 |title=Introducing... Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Quarantined
|url=https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/introducing-links-i-would-gchat-you|work=linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com |location=NYC |access-date=September 19, 2020}}
Personal life
She married Jason Rainwater, whom she met online.{{cite news |last=Miya |first=Lee |date=November 24, 2017 |title= Winning the College Contest Means Everything Is Rosy, Right?|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/style/modern-love-college-contest-winners-follow-up.html |access-date=November 24, 2017}} After adopting a dual last name, she found that few people gave equal weight to both names.{{cite news |date=September 4, 2020 |title=Watch out for Wikipedians
|url=https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/watch-out-for-wikipedians|work=linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com |access-date=September 19, 2020}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.caitlindewey.com/}}
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Category:The Washington Post journalists
Category:S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni
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Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American women journalists
Category:21st-century American journalists