CHARLIE WARZEL writes the newsletter, Galaxy Brain for
The Atlantic, where he is a Contributing Writer. Before that he was a writer-at-large for the
New York Times Opinion page, and a senior technology writer at
BuzzFeed News. He was the lead writer of the
Times' Privacy Project and co-author of 'One Nation Tracked, ' a seven-part investigative series on smartphone location tracking, for which he was named a finalist for the 2020 Livingston Award for National Reporting. Before the
Times, Warzel was a senior technology writer at
BuzzFeed News, covering technology's biggest platforms, disinformation, and information warfare. He was the recipient of a 2019 Mirror Award for his reporting on Facebook's privacy struggles. He lives on an island off the coast of Washington state.
Anne Helen Petersen writes the newsletter Culture Study, and is the author of four books, most recently
Out of the Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home (co-written with Charlie Warzel) and
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. She received her
Ph.D. in media studies from the University of Texas, and was formerly a senior culture writer at
BuzzFeed News. She lives on an island off the coast of Washington state.
