Washington Post technology columnist Geoffrey Fowler is among the layoffs at the newspaper on Wednesday.
He has been writing the column since October 2017. Fowler has started a Substack.
Fowler spent the previous 16 years with The Wall Street Journal and the last four writing and making videos for its influential “Personal Technology” column. He has been based in San Francisco since 2009, reporting and editing stories on startups and tech giants including Facebook, Amazon and Apple, as well as national news topics such as the battle over gay marriage.
He was part of the team that won the Scripps Howard Foundation First Amendment Award for reporting on digital privacy.
From 2002 to 2008, Fowler was based in Hong Kong and China covering topics ranging from SARS to the early development of the Chinese Internet. He also covered three Olympic Games (Beijing, Vancouver and London).
He has a master’s degree in social anthropology from Cambridge University and an undergraduate degree in anthropology and Afro-American studies from Harvard University.
