Farhad Manjoo
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Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) is an American journalist. Manjoo was a staff writer for Slate magazine from 2008 to September 2013, when they left to join The Wall Street Journal.{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/09/04/manjoo-joins-wall-street-journal-as-technology-columnist|title=Manjoo Joins Wall Street Journal as Technology Columnist|date=September 4, 2013 | work=The Wall Street Journal}} In January 2014, they joined The New York Times, replacing David Pogue as the technology columnist.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/business/media/the-times-hires-a-technology-columnist.html |title=The Times Hires a Technology Columnist |work=The New York Times |last=Cohen |first=Noam |date=January 16, 2014 }} Manjoo became an opinion columnist at the paper in 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/farhad-manjoo|title = Farhad Manjoo - the New York Times|website = The New York Times}} They have also been a contributor to National Public Radio since 2009.[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100778238 "Farhad Manjoo Talks You Into Joining Facebook"], National Public Radio, February 17, 2009.
Early life and education
Manjoo was born in South Africa in 1978 to a family with ancestral roots in India. The family left South Africa when Manjoo was eight years old,Manjoo, Farhad (February 15, 2013). [https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/302478970908184576 Twitter] and moved to Southern California. Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. As an undergraduate, Manjoo served as writer and editor-in-chief of The Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper.
They were self-described in The New York Times as a "stereotypical, cisgender, middle-aged suburban dad," and said in 2019 that they prefer to be referred to with singular they pronouns.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/opinion/pronoun-they-gender.html|title=Call Me 'They'|last1=Manjoo|first1=Farhad|date=July 10, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 11, 2019}} Manjoo publicly disclosed their struggle with esophageal achalasia in 2019.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/opinion/public-restrooms.html|title=America's Public Restrooms Are Kind of Great Now|last1=Manjoo|first1=Farhad|date=December 11, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 10, 2022}}
Career
Manjoo wrote for Wired News before taking a staff position at Salon.com. In July 2008, they accepted a job at Slate magazine writing a twice-weekly technology column. In September 2013, they joined The Wall Street Journal as a technology columnist; their final column for Slate, urging men to wear makeup, was published on September 20.{{cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/09/men_should_wear_makeup_looking_younger_and_better_isn_t_just_for_women.html|author=Farhad Manjoo|title=Men Should Wear Makeup|date=September 20, 2013|publisher=Slate.com}} They moved to The New York Times in 2014, and left in 2023.{{cite web | title=Farhad Manjoo | website=The New York Times | date=2019-01-08 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/farhad-manjoo | access-date=2024-12-30}}
Manjoo has written about technology, new media,Mitchell, Dan. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/business/22online.html "The Thin Skin of Apple Fans"], The New York Times, March 22, 2008. politics,Farhad Manjoo. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16wwln-idealab-t.html "Rumors Reasons"], The New York Times, March 16, 2008. and controversies in journalism.Kristoff, Nicholas D. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/opinion/19kristof.html "The Daily Me"], The New York Times, March 18, 2009.
They are the author of the book True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.Hesse, Monica. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042500922.html "Truth: Can You Handle It?"], The Washington Post, April 27, 2008.Manjoo, Farhad (2008). True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-fact Society. Wiley. {{ISBN|978-0-470-05010-1}}Hluchy, Patricia. [https://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/416288 "Redefining truth in a 'post-fact society'"], Toronto Star, April 20, 2008.
They shared the 2018 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for the story "Ouster at Uber."{{Cite web |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ucla-anderson-school-of-management-announces-2018-gerald-loeb-award-winners-300672056.html |title=UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2018 Gerald Loeb Award Winners |date=June 25, 2018 |publisher=PR Newswire |access-date=January 31, 2019}}
In March 2018, they published a column in the Times about a personal experiment in getting most of their news from print sources for two months.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/technology/two-months-news-newspapers.html|title=For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here's What I Learned.|last1=Manjoo|first1=Farhad|date=7 March 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=18 March 2018}} The piece drew criticism from the Columbia Journalism Review{{cite news|url=https://www.cjr.org/analysis/farhad-manjoo-nyt-unplug.php|title=The Times tech columnist 'unplugged' from the internet. Except he didn't.|last1=Mitchell|first1=Dan|date=9 March 2018|work=Columbia Journalism Review|access-date=18 March 2018}} and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism{{cite news|url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/the-%E2%9D%A4%EF%B8%8F-of-the-matter-here-are-too-many-words-about-farhad-manjoos-twitter-habits-and-some-cool-charts/|title=The ❤️ of the matter: Here are too many words about Farhad Manjoo's Twitter habits (and some cool charts)|last1=Benton|first1=Joshua|date=12 March 2018|work=NiemanLab|access-date=18 March 2018}} for the article's assertion Manjoo had "unplugged from Twitter" for this period when in fact they continued to use the social media service every day. Manjoo felt the piece was sufficiently clear that they made exceptions to their "unplugged" policy, and The New York Times stood by the piece. WNYC's On the Media removed a segment with Manjoo discussing the experiment.{{cite web|url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-2018-03-09/|title=Like We Used To Do|website=On the Media|access-date=18 March 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/did-farhad-unplug/|title=Did Farhad "Unplug"?|date=13 March 2018|website=On the Media|access-date=18 March 2018}}
In April 2021, their column "Let's Quit Fetishizing the Single-Family Home" was used for the Abitur high school leaving exams in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/opinion/california-single-family-housing.html|title=Opinion | Let's Quit Fetishizing the Single-Family Home|newspaper=The New York Times|date=5 February 2020|last1=Manjoo|first1=Farhad}}{{cite web |last1=Siegle |first1=Lisa |title=Abiturienten aus NRW pöbeln gegen Autor der New York Times: "Bro, du hast ab sofort NRW-Verbot" |url=https://www.ruhr24.de/nrw/abitur-nrw-englisch-2021-new-york-times-text-farhad-manjoo-instagram-schueler-schule-corona-90474779.html |website=ruhr24.de |access-date=25 April 2021}}
Their return to Slate was published on the 26th of April 2024, with the first of r/Farhad, an occasional column about interesting things they've read on Reddit.{{cite web | last=Manjoo | first=Farhad | title=I Found the Perfect Place to Watch People Humiliate Themselves Online. It Thrills and Haunts Me. | website=Slate Magazine | date=2024-04-26 | url=https://slate.com/technology/2024/04/reddit-communities-online-evil.html | access-date=2024-12-30}}
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- [https://www.nytimes.com/by/farhad-manjoo Farhad Manjoo articles] at The New York Times
- [http://www.slate.com/authors.farhad_manjoo.html Farhad Manjoo articles] at Slate.com
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060619144852/http://dir.salon.com/topics/farhad_manjoo/index.html Farhad Manjoo articles] at Salon.com
- [https://www.npr.org/templates/search/index.php?searchinput=farhad+manjoo&tabId=all&dateId=0&sort=match Farhad Manjoo pieces on NPR]
- [http://www.fastcompany.com/user/farhad-manjoo Farhad Manjoo articles] at Fast Company
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/fashion/weddings/22bailey.html Helen Bailey and Farhad Manjoo] at NYTimes.com
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Category:American male journalists
Category:Cornell University alumni
Category:The New York Times columnists
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