Farhad Manjoo was born on 1978 and is an American journalist.
11 Facts About Farhad Manjoo
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Farhad Manjoo became an opinion columnist at the paper in 2018.
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Farhad Manjoo was born in South Africa in 1978 to a family with ancestral roots in India.
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The family left South Africa when Farhad Manjoo was eight years old, and moved to Southern California.
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Farhad Manjoo wrote in the New York Times that they prefer to be referred to with singular they pronouns.
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Farhad Manjoo publicly disclosed their struggle with esophageal achalasia in 2019.
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Farhad Manjoo wrote for Wired News before taking a staff position at Salon.
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Farhad Manjoo has written about technology, new media, politics, and controversies in journalism.
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The piece drew criticism from the Columbia Journalism Review and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism for the article's assertion Farhad Manjoo had "unplugged from Twitter" for this period when in fact they continued to use the social media service every day.
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Farhad Manjoo felt the piece was sufficiently clear that they made exceptions to their "unplugged" policy, and The New York Times stood by the piece.
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WNYC's On the Media removed a segment with Farhad Manjoo discussing the experiment.