Sam Biddle
Sam Biddle | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sam Faulkner Biddle 1987 (age 36–37)[1] |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University[2] |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | Gawker Media |
| Father | Wayne Biddle[2] |
Sam Faulkner Biddle is an American technology journalist. He is a reporter for The Intercept, and was formerly a senior writer at Gawker, the editor of the news website Valleywag, and a reporter at Gizmodo.[4]
Education
Sam Biddle attended college at Johns Hopkins, where he was a member of the Delta Phi fraternity and majored in philosophy.[2]
Career
Biddle was formerly the editor of Valleywag, a technology news website owned by Gawker Media. In October 2014, he announced that he was leaving Valleywag and taking a sabbatical, after which he took another journalist position at a different Gawker Media site. His writing focuses on Internet issues, such as cybersecurity and online political activism.[4] In 2014, he was named one of Vanity Fair's "News Disrupters," a "new breed of journo-entrepreneurs [striking] out on their own, cutting to the chase and influencing the masses without (much of) a filter."[5]
Controversy
Biddle's articles have often been controversial, and have focused on criticizing and making fun of workers at technology companies and affluent people in the San Francisco Bay Area.[6] New York Magazine has referred to Biddle as "perhaps the most hated journalist in the Bay Area",[3] while an article in PandoDaily attacked him as a "grotesque hypocrite".[2]
Biddle and Gawker have been targets of the Gamergate controversy, an Internet campaign related to feminism and ethics in video games media. In response to a tweet by Biddle saying "Bring Back Bullying", Gamergate supporters posted a list of Gawker's advertisers online, and contacted them in a campaign to force them to pull ad campaigns from Gawker websites.[4]
References
- ^ Myers, Courtney Boyd (February 17, 2014). "The 'Real' Sam Biddle: Manicuring Mom Is Kind of Concerned About Valleywag Editor Who Shares Her Name". New York Observer. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d Carr, Paul (December 26, 2013). "Look Who's Gawking: Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers". PandoDaily. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ a b Bennett, Laura (April 6, 2014). "Riding an Uber With Sam Biddle, the Tech World's Least Beloved Watchdog". New York Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ a b c Shontell, Alyson (October 24, 2014). "Sam Biddle Is Leaving Valleywag". Business Insider. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ Ellison, Sarah. "News Disrupters: The New Breed of Journalists Striking Out on Their Own". Retrieved 2016-09-22.
- ^ Manjoo, Farhad (29 August 2013). "Would You Just Look at All Those Rich People!". Slate (magazine). Retrieved 19 April 2016.