Casey Newton

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Casey Newton
Born (1980-06-19) June 19, 1980 (age 43)
EducationB.S.J., Northwestern University
OccupationJournalist
Websitecnewton.org

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.[2]

Career

Newton had been covering the

PTSD[9]) has led to a contracting company cutting ties with Facebook.[10]

In 2020, he left to create his own freemium newsletter on Substack called Platformer,[6][2][11] with the paid subscription costing US$10 per month.[4] Substack incentivized authors with advances, which Newton turned down, but accepted healthcare stipends.[2] As of January 2024, Platformer had 170,000 subscribers to the free edition.[12] In January 2024, Newton decided to move Platformer off Substack to Ghost, in response to Substack's policies and handling of pro-Nazi publications on its platform.[13]

In late 2022, he began a weekly technology news

New York Times, called Hard Fork, co-hosting with Kevin Roose.[14] Roose, in 2021, praised Newton with having "opinions [that] hold sway among social media executives".[15]

Personal life

Casey Newton was born on June 19, 1980.[16][6] Newton is gay[17] and lives in San Francisco.[16] He graduated from Northwestern University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Journalism.[18]

References

  1. ^ Roose, Kevin; Newton, Casey (September 8, 2023). "Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions". The New York Times (Podcast). Retrieved September 9, 2023. I don't know what prep school you went to, but on the mean streets of La Habra, California, they offered Spanish and French.
  2. ^ a b c d e Wiener, Anna (December 28, 2020). "Is Substack the Media Future We Want?". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d Ingram, Mathew (August 14, 2019). "Casey Newton on dismantling the platforms and taking Facebook's cash". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  4. ^ a b Goodykoontz, Bill (March 20, 2022). "How a former Arizona Reporter Launched Silicon Valley's Most Coveted Newsletter". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
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  8. ^ "'Something really important is happening': Casey Newton on going solo with a paid newsletter". What’s New in Publishing | Digital Publishing News. October 15, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
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  13. ^ Peters, Jay (January 11, 2024). "Substack keeps the Nazis, loses Platformer". The Verge. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  14. New York Times
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  15. New York Times
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  16. ^ a b "Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)". Twitter. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
  17. ^ Casey Newton [@CaseyNewton] (November 17, 2022). "Ugh now I have to go back to telling people I'm gay the old fashioned way (changing my profile pic to the NOH8 one from 2009)" (Tweet). Retrieved November 17, 2022 – via Twitter.
  18. ^ Cramer, Jude (October 26, 2020). "Q&A with Casey Newton (BSJ02), Founder of Platformer". Northwestern Alumni Magazine. Retrieved November 17, 2022.

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