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Davey Alba is a technical reporter for the New Yok Times.
Early life and education
[edit]Davey Alba was born in Manilla, Phillipines, and attended De La Salle University there. She came to the United States in 2010. She studied at Columbia University and received a masters in technical writing.[1]
Career
[edit]Alba's first job out of training was at Popular Mechanics; she was technical editor and got to test gadgets and phones.[2] She worked as a technical writer at BuzzFeedNews Wired and Gizmodo before joining the New York Times as a technology reporter 2019.[1] Her areas of coverage at the Times have included disinformation[3][4] and the power of Big Tech companies to spread it.[5][6][7]
In 2018, working at BuzzFeed, she reported how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte used fake news.[8]For the BuzzFeed article on Duterte, Alba won two 2019 awards. She was awarded the Livingston Award for International Reporting, documenting how Facebook ignored fake news and "was used by a corrupt government to punish oppponents, sometimes with death."[9] She, also, won the Mirror Award for Best Story for Journalism in Peril.[10]
After reporting on videos supportive of President Trump's recommendation for the use disinfectants for the treatment Covid-19, Davey was the target of "weaponized harassment." Davey reports that she was targeted as a reporter who is an immigrant, a woman and a person of color.[11]
- ^ a b "Meet Our New Tech Reporter: Davey Alba". The New York Times Company. 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ "Davey Alba, M.A. Program Alumna, Wins 2019 Livingston and Mirror Awards". apply.jrn.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ "NY Times reporter Davey Alba on covering COVID-19 conspiracy theories, facing online harassment". News Break. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
- ^ Alba, Davey (2020-08-14). "Debunking 3 Viral Falsehoods About Kamala Harris". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
- ^ Alba, Davey (2020-07-28). "Twitter limits Donald Trump Jr.'s account after he shares virus misinformation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
- ^ Alba, Davey (2020-08-05). "Facebook Must Better Police Online Hate, State Attorneys General Say". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
- ^ Frenkel, Sheera; Alba, Davey (2020-04-30). "Trump's Disinfectant Talk Trips Up Sites' Vows Against Misinformation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
- ^ "Duterte's Drug War And The Human Cost Of Facebook's Rise In The Philippines". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ "2019 Livingston Winners Announced". Wallace House. 2019-06-04. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
- ^ "Past Winners". Mirror Awards | Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
- ^ "NY Times reporter Davey Alba on covering COVID-19 conspiracy theories, facing online harassment". Committee to Protect Journalists. 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2020-08-16.