Annalee Newitz (born May 7, 1969 in Irvine, California, U.S.) is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction, who has written for the periodicals Popular Science and Wired. From 1999 to 2008, Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004, Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015, Newitz was editor-in-chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times.
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James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018)
Guest starring as Senior Tech Culture Editor - ARS Tecnica
(4 episodes)
- Episode 1x06: Time Travel (May 28, 2018)
- Episode 1x05: Intelligent Machines (May 28, 2018)
- Episode 1x03: Monsters (May 14, 2018)
- Episode 1x01: Alien Life (Apr 30, 2018)
Guest starring as Tech Journalist / Author - Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Episode 1x04: Dark Futures (May 21, 2018)