Nellie Bowles

Nellie Bowles is an American journalist. She is noted for covering the technology world of Silicon Valley. She worked as a journalist 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.
Career
From 2017 to 2021, Bowles covered technology for the New York Times in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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." She covers the technology and business world of hi-tech startups and venture capital, and she has written about personalities such as Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt, and iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman. She covered the exclusive conference of technology CEOs called Further Future, and has written about subjects such as doxxing and cryptocurrencies. She appeared twice on the Charlie Rose nationally broadcast television interview show.
Her reporting is often controversial; for example, her account of her interview with Jordan Peterson attracted much attention. She has moderated televised discussions on the subject of free speech in the digital age, and she has written about gender equality in the tech world. Her reports regarding the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians have sometimes generated additional controversy.
In 2021, Bowles along with Bari Weiss launched Common Sense on Substack. The publication changed names to The Free Press in 2022.
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. Bowles graduated from Columbia University in 2010.
Bowles is a lesbian. She is married to political commentator Bari Weiss, a relationship she says led her to convert to Judaism. She also says the conversion was part of a personal drive to be more empathy-driven in her reporting. They have a daughter, born in 2022.
References
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
Living people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Journalists from San Francisco
American women journalists
The New York Times people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American LGBT journalists
American LGBT writers
21st-century American journalists
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Investigative
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American LGBT people
21st-century American women writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Converts to Judaism
LGBT Jews
Jewish American journalists
Jewish American writers
American people of German descent