Caitlin Dewey
American journalist
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Caitlin Dewey Rainwater (née Dewey) is an American journalist, essayist and cultural commentator who runs the Links I Would G-Chat You If We Were Friends newsletter.
As of May 2024, she works as a freelance writer. She previously wrote for the Buffalo News,[1] which she joined after leaving The Washington Post where she founded the paper's blog, The Intersect.
Early life and education
Dewey grew up in Buffalo, New York.[2] She graduated from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she won The New York Times' 2012 "Modern Love: College Essay Contest".[3]
Career
Dewey writes for the Buffalo News and was formerly[when?] with The Washington Post where she founded the Post's blog the Intersect. She was also the food policy writer for Wonkblog, another Post blog. She wrote an 82-week column for the Post entitled "What Was Fake On The Internet This Week" (the blog ended in December 2015).[4]
Her reporting on Gamergate, the harassment of women in the online gaming world, prompted a Congressional inquiry into the issue. She has won awards from, among other organizations, the Society of Features Journalism.[2]
Dewey published a daily newsletter about Internet culture, Links I would GChat you if we were friends, from 2014 to 2016.[5] The work was a Webby Award honoree in 2016.[6] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dewey resurrected the newsletter as a weekly email.[7]