1. Nellie Bowles is an American journalist and satirist.
12 Facts About Nellie Bowles
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Nellie Bowles has written for the English-language Argentine daily the Buenos Aires Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, The California Sunday Magazine, the technology journalism website Recode, the British daily The Guardian beginning in 2016, then for Vice News, The New York Times and most recently The Free Press.
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From 2017 to 2021, Bowles covered technology and culture for The New York Times, mostly while based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Nellie Bowles covered the exclusive conference of technology CEOs called Further Future, and has written about subjects such as doxxing and cryptocurrency.
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Nellie Bowles's reporting is often controversial; for example, her account of her interview with Jordan Peterson attracted much attention.
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Nellie Bowles has moderated televised discussions on free speech in the digital age, and has written about gender equality in the tech world.
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Nellie Bowles is the company's head of strategy and writes a weekly column called TGIF, a satirical roundup of current news.
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Nellie Bowles's first book, Morning After the Revolution, was released in 2024 by Thesis, a new imprint of Penguin Random House.
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Nellie Bowles cites the progressive endorsement of biological males participating in women's sports as an example.
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Nellie Bowles is a descendant of Henry Miller, who was dubbed the "Cattle King of California" and was at one point one of the largest landowners in the United States, and a descendant of Thomas Crowley, who founded the transportation and logistics company Crowley Maritime.
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Nellie Bowles is married to political commentator Bari Weiss, a relationship she says led her to convert to Judaism.
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Nellie Bowles says the conversion was part of a personal drive to be more empathy-driven in her reporting.