Nellie Bowles

American journalist

Bari Weiss
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(m. 2021)​
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Nellie Bowles (/ˈnɛli boʊlz/ NEL-ee bolz) is an American journalist. She is noted for covering the technology world of Silicon Valley.[1][2][3][4] She worked as a journalist for the English-language Argentine daily the Buenos Aires Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle,[5] The California Sunday Magazine,[6] the technology journalism website Recode,[5][7] the British daily The Guardian beginning in 2016,[7] then for Vice News,[8][9] The New York Times and most recently The Free Press.[10]

Career

From 2017 to 2021, Bowles covered technology for the New York Times in the San Francisco Bay Area.[11][12] In 2020, she was awarded the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative reporting along with two colleagues for her investigation into online child abuse; according to editor Dean Murphy, their "deep, persistent and compassionate reporting" served to "hold both government and big tech accountable, and tell the stories of untold children who have endured this abuse in silence."[13][14] She covers the technology and business world of hi-tech startups and venture capital, and she has written about personalities such as Elon Musk,[15] Eric Schmidt,[15][1] and iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman.[16] She covered the exclusive conference of technology CEOs called Further Future,[17] and has written about subjects such as doxxing[18] and cryptocurrencies.[19] She appeared twice on the Charlie Rose nationally broadcast television interview show.[20]

Her reporting is often controversial; for example, her account of her interview with Jordan Peterson attracted much attention.[21][22][23] She has moderated televised discussions on the subject of free speech in the digital age,[24] and she has written about gender equality in the tech world.[25] Her reports regarding the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians have sometimes generated additional controversy.[26][27] She was sued for defamation by Harvard professor and legal scholar Lawrence Lessig over her reporting of Lessig's writings over Jeffrey Epstein's donations to MIT Media Lab at the New York Times. Lessig subsequently dropped the lawsuit after the headline was changed to better represent his views.[28][29]

In 2021, Bowles along with Bari Weiss launched Common Sense on Substack. The publication changed names to The Free Press in 2022.[10][30][31]

Personal life

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.[32] Bowles graduated from Columbia University in 2010.[33][34]

Bowles is married to political commentator Bari Weiss,[35] a relationship she says led her to convert to Judaism.[36] She also says the conversion was part of a personal drive to be more empathy-driven in her reporting.[37][38] They have a daughter, born in 2022.[39][40]

References

  1. ^ a b Anna Escher (September 25, 2016). "WTF is clickbait?". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 11, 2018. ...In the tech world, Nellie Bowles has suggested that executives and investors will disparage any story that paints them in an unflattering light as "clickbait"...
  2. ^ Staff writers (February 2, 2016). "The Guardian's Nellie Bowles Joins In2Summit Lineup: Bowles joined the Guardian as part of a trio focused on covering technology". Holmes Report. Retrieved February 11, 2018. ...The Guardian's newest tech reporter Nellie Bowles has will appear in a fireside chat at the Holmes Report's 3rd Innovation Summit. to talk about Silicon Valley's global impact....
  3. ^ Nellie Bowles (January 22, 2016). "The Guardian's Nellie Bowles Joins In2Summit Lineup". The Guardian. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  4. ^ Staff writers (June 2016). "Nellie Bowles is a technology reporter for Guardian US in San Francisco". The Guardian. Retrieved February 11, 2018. ......
  5. ^ a b "Nellie Bowles". Hachette Book Group. February 11, 2018. Retrieved February 11, 2018. ...Nellie Bowles is a journalist at Re/code, a live tech journalism company, and has been covering tech and culture in San Francisco for four years ... business reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. ... Columbia University ... degrees in Comparative Literature and Psychology ... traveled extensively for research. She won a fellowship to McGill University to write about transcultural psychiatry and hypnosis ... lived in Buenos Aires and interned for The Buenos Aires Herald ... awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Swaziland....
  6. ^ Adweek, Richard Horgan, December 11, 2015, Guardian US Boosts Tech Reporter Ranks, Retrieved February 11, 2018, "...Nellie Bowles (pictured) ... a contributing writer to The California Sunday magazine ... working on a book for Hachette and TV show based on one of her stories for 20th Century Fox .. previously covered the tech world for Re/code..."
  7. ^ a b Aarti Shaw (February 21, 2016). "In2Summit: 'The Next Billion Dollar Fortune Will Come From VR': The Guardian's newest technology reporter Nellie Bowles told attendees at the In2 Summit how she finds stories, what she expects from Silicon Valley over the next six months — and about poor PR practices". Holmes Report. Retrieved February 11, 2018. ...Bowles joined the Guardian's growing Silicon Valley team in January 2016. Before this, she was a staff writer at Re/Code.... technology that emerges in Silicon Valley ultimately reaches the rest of the country — and world— within a few weeks or years....
  8. ^ Chris Ariens (June 1, 2016). "Here's Who VICE News Has Hired as It Staffs Up for Nightly HBO Show". Newser. Retrieved February 11, 2018. ...Nellie Bowles who will head up the new San Francisco Bureau...
  9. ^ Todd Spangler, June 1, 2016, Variety magazine, Vice News Touts New Hires in Staff Reshuffle Under Josh Tyrangiel, Retrieved February 11, 2018, "... Vice News employees are ... Nellie Bowles, formerly with the Guardian and Vox Media’s Recode, who will head up the soon-to-open San Francisco office and cover tech..."
  10. ^ a b Fischer, Sara (December 13, 2022). "Bari Weiss reveals business plan for buzzy new media startup". Axios. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  11. ^ Nellie Bowles (February 4, 2018). "Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built". The New York Times. Retrieved February 11, 2018. ...SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley technologists ... alarmed over the ill effects of social networks and smartphones, are banding together to challenge the companies they helped build...
  12. ^ Agility, June 9, 2017, Journalists on the move – Week of June 5, Retrieved February 11, 2018, "Notable journalist and media industry moves: ...The New York Times: Nellie Bowles, correspondent for VICE News, joins as business reporter on technology and digital culture beat..."
  13. ^ New York Times, June 8, 2020, Staff writers, Times Investigation Wins Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Retrieved June 10, 2020, "...'Journalists seldom write about this horrific abuse beyond high-profile arrests and stings,' ... said Dean Murphy, who edited the series...."
  14. ^ Trounson, Rebecca (November 13, 2020). "Anderson School of Management announces 2020 Loeb Award winners in business journalism" (Press release). UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
  15. ^ a b Staff writers Ellen and Pui-Wing (June 5, 2017). "Nellie Bowles to Join Bizday". The New York Times. Retrieved February 11, 2018. ...from Vice News Tonight on HBO, where she has been an on-air correspondent for the past year, working on segments about venture capitalists and tech companies, and traveling the world on a broad range of assignments. ... She previously worked at The Guardian and Recode, ... Nellie began ... intern at the San Francisco Chronicle...
  16. ^ Billboard magazine, Andrew Flanagan, August 28, 2014, Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman Channels Dissent and Tents at Burning Man, Retrieved February 11, 2018, "... intrepid Nellie Bowles, writing for Re/code, visited Pittman at his Burning Man home, a "spider house" or "Dhome" that Pittman had... designed? ... Pittman's reasons for sleeping in the desert ... are quite obvious, according to Bowles' ..."
  17. ^ May 3, 2016, Maya Kosoff, Vanity Fair, INSIDE THE ELITE, INVITE-ONLY FUTURISM FESTIVAL FOR TECH C.E.O.S: It’s like TED Talks and Burning Man combined, but harder to get into than either, Retrieved February 11, 2018, "...Nellie Bowles got an inside look at the second-annual Further Future, which took place last weekend...."
  18. ^ Andrea Grimes, September 26, 2017, Dame Magazine, IS DOXXING EVER OKAY? Nazis who get doxxed are not victims. But so far the media has failed to get the message, Retrieved February 11, 2018, "....As with all Times stories that sit at the intersection of culture and politics, Bowles’s piece includes some obligatory, nonspecific handwringing over “murky” ethics, ... it is a very complete New York Times story...."
  19. ^ "Strings, Theories & Connecting Dots: A Cryptic Column About Puerto Rico's 'Crypto-Utopia'". Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  20. ^ "Nellie Bowles -- 2 appearances". Charlie Rose. May 10, 2016. Retrieved February 11, 2018. ...Reporter, The Guardian ...
  21. ^ Bowles, Nellie (May 18, 2018). "Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy: He says there's a crisis in masculinity. Why won't women — all these wives and witches — just behave?". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 21, 2024. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
  22. ^ Heer, Jeet (May 21, 2018). "Jordan Peterson's Tired Old Myths". The New Republic. Retrieved June 10, 2018. 'The messages he delivers,' Bowles wrote, 'range from hoary self-help empowerment talk (clean your room, stand up straight) to the more retrograde and political (a society run as a patriarchy makes sense and stems mostly from men's competence; the notion of white privilege is a farce' [...].
  23. ^ Foiles, Jonathan (May 22, 2018). "Jordan Peterson Seems Like a Terrible Therapist: Therapists are supposed to empower their clients, not use them to support their own worldview". Slate. Retrieved June 14, 2018. Nellie Bowles recounts one such session in her recent New York Times profile of Peterson [...].
  24. ^ John Battelle, May 17, 2018, NewsCo Shift, A Magic Shield That Lets You Be An Assh*le? Now that digital platforms drive physical consequences, what does “free speech” really even mean anymore?, Retrieved June 14, 2018, "...Cindy Cohn Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Carol Christ Chancellor, UC Berkeley, and moderator Nellie Bowles of The New York Times..."
  25. ^ Thacher Schmid, March 12, 2018, Willamette Week, While Startups Increasingly Move to Portland, a New York Times Reporter Warns That There’s a “Gender Problem” in Tech: Nellie Bowles will be in Portland next month to speak at TechfestNW on the inclusivity, or lack thereof, in tech culture., Retrieved June 17, 2018, "...Bowles has written a number of groundbreaking stories on the "gender problem" in tech, including a profile of a "contrarian" fringe element of men leading a backlash against women asserting their rights...."
  26. ^ Wemple, Erik (April 24, 2018). "New York Times corrects its curious example of a 'far-right conspiracy'". Washington Post. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
  27. ^ Stoll, Ira (April 24, 2018). "New York Times Issues 'Correction of The Year' on Pay-To-Slay". Algemeiner Journal. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
  28. ^ Neidig, Harper (January 13, 2020). "Harvard professor sues NYT over Epstein donations story". The Hill. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
  29. ^ Robertson, Adi (January 13, 2020). "Lawrence Lessig sues New York Times over MIT and Jeffrey Epstein interview". The Verge. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
  30. ^ Arends, Brett. "How much? Times walkout Bari Weiss breaks the rules, makes a mint". MarketWatch. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  31. ^ Stelter, Brian (October 17, 2021). "Bari Weiss' next act: a Substack newsletter that serves as 'the newspaper for the 21st century' | CNN Business". CNN. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
  32. ^ Whiting, Sam (October 28, 2021). "Beatrice Bowles, a San Francisco heiress who cast off high society to host parties for the counterculture, dies at 78". S.F. Chronicle. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  33. ^ January 29, 2018, Columbia University, Alumni in the News, Retrieved February 11, 2018, "...Journalist Nellie Bowles ’10’s work for The New York Times appeared on the front pages of two sections of the paper (Sunday Styles and Sunday Business)..."
  34. ^ "College Alumni and the Pandemic". Columbia College Today. April 20, 2020. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
  35. ^ Smith, Kyle (November 18, 2021). "New York Times Buried Kenosha Reporting until after Election, Says Ex-reporter". -National Review. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
  36. ^ Andrew Gilbert (March 2, 2021). "S.F.-raised journalist's path to Judaism started on a date with Bari Weiss". J. Weekly. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  37. ^ Bowles, Nellie (February 4, 2021). "Learning How to (and How Not to) Kill".
  38. ^ Danailova, Hilary (May 7, 2021). "Chosen by Choice". Hadassah Magazine.
  39. ^ Goldsmith, Annie (January 27, 2023). "Bari Weiss Brings the Culture Wars Home". The Information.
  40. ^ Marriott, James (February 17, 2023). "Bari Weiss: the queen of free speech and anti-woke warrior". The Times.

External links

  • Nellie Bowles profile at Muck Rack
  • Interview Bowles interviews Eric Swalwell on Inforum
  • Nellie Bowles and Jessica Lessin on Obligations in Tech YouTube video
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  • 2020: Michael H. Keller, Gabriel J. X. Dance, Nellie Bowles
  • 2021: Nacha Cattan, Andrew England, Henry Foy, Sam Jones, Dan McCrum, Paul Murphy, Max Seddon, Cam Simpson, Michael Smith, Erika Solomon, Olaf Storbeck, Helen Warrell
  • 2022: Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington, Eli Murray
  • 2023: Kendall Taggart, John Templon, Anthony Cormier, Jason Leopold
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