Shirin Ghaffary has been promoted to senior correspondent at Vox/Recode and will now cover social media policy and its intersection with politics.
She has been covering social media and big tech, and previously labor and tech.
Ghaffary has also co-hosted the Google season of the “Land of the Giants” narrative podcast series. Ghaffary also worked for BuzzFeed News and Elementum, an enterprise software startup, and interned for The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch.
Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, Ghaffary was raised in Silicon Valley next door to Apple headquarters, and attended Cal-Berkeley where she was executive news editor of the Daily Californian, the university paper.
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