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Backchannel
Mining the tech world for lively and meaningful tales and analysis.
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Mining the tech world for lively and meaningful tales and analysis. How to pitch us: https://medium.com/@stevenlevy/would-you-like-to-write-for-backchannel-89105791a211

Editors
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editor in chief
Steven Levy
Writing for Wired, Used to edit Backchannel here. Just wrote Facebook: The Inside Story.
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Executive editor
Sandra Upson
Executive editor of Backchannel @ Conde Nast, formerly of Medium
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editor
Alexis Sobel Fitts
Writer at large; Senior Editor of Backchannel @ Conde Nast.
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Editorial Associate
Miranda Katz
Editorial Associate at Backchannel.
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Editorial Director
Jessi Hempel
I am the head of editorial for Backchannel. I write about the business and culture of technology. And I want to edit your stories on those topics as well.
Go to the profile of Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw
Go to the profile of Sam Baldwin
Sam Baldwin
Online Editor at Mother Jones Magazine.
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contributing writer
Scott Rosenberg
Covering the Web since 1994. Backchannel. NewCo Daily. Wordyard.com. Say Everything. Dreaming in Code. Grist. Mediabugs. Salon. Berkeley, CA. Real person.
Go to the profile of Ricki Harris
Ricki Harris
Editorial Fellow at Backchannel
Writers
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contributing writer
Dan Gillmor
The first rule of a conversation: listen. Bio and disclosures: http://dangillmor.com/about
Go to the profile of Karen Wickre
ADVICE COLUMNIST
Karen Wickre
Connector, word wrangler, reality checker; communications advisor, author (“Taking the Work Out of Networking”), Marker columnist (https://marker.medium.com)/.
Go to the profile of Lauren Smiley
contributing writer
Lauren Smiley
San Francisco journalist studying humans in the Tech Age. For WIRED, California Sunday, and San Francisco Magazine. Alum of Matter and Backchannel.
Go to the profile of Scott Rosenberg
contributing writer
Scott Rosenberg
Covering the Web since 1994. Backchannel. NewCo Daily. Wordyard.com. Say Everything. Dreaming in Code. Grist. Mediabugs. Salon. Berkeley, CA. Real person.