A champion of revelatory reporting who has guided some of The Post’s biggest scoops and most ambitious enterprise, Fitts will oversee the tech team from the corporate campuses of Silicon Valley to the halls of power in Washington.
Since joining The Post in 2021, she has edited probing stories that illuminate the political and cultural impact of the industry, its key figures and the rise of artificial intelligence. Her team dug into Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service as well as Musk’s transformation from environmental champion to anti-climate change enforcer. Her team broke news on Donald Trump’s designs on TikTok amid a broader rethinking of his relationship with Silicon Valley. And she has produced deep stories about key figures helping to propel the nation’s shift to the right, including the pro-Trump wellness guru who ran for vice president and the investor who emerged as an unlikely leader in the movement to end DEI.
Fitts has produced revelatory stories about AI’s impact in the real world alongside pieces that investigate its inner workings. Late last year, she edited a ground-breaking report on the use of AI by the Israeli military in the war on Gaza. And she has spearheaded some of our most impactful projects on social media, including our coverage of the Facebook Papers in 2021 and the exclusive 2022 report on “Mudge,” the Twitter whistleblower.
Before coming to The Post, Sobel Fitts was deputy editor of Jezebel and a senior editor at Wired. She has covered tech since 2013 when, as a senior writer at the Columbia Journalism Review, she developed a beat examining how technology giants were influencing media and the spread of information.
She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Yale University.
