I live in New York City, and I work as an associate business and tech writer for Slate, covering topics ranging from social media to the financial industry to climate science to artificial intelligence. I also occasionally branch out to write about culture (especially rap music) and international politics (especially that which involves India). Some of my biggest stories include:

• Breaking the news of Twitter’s transformation into X Corp.;

• Speaking with longtime Quora users about the steady degradation of the site’s quality in recent years;

• Talking with former Deviants about how DeviantArt evolved from a once-essential digital gallery to a bot-ridden spamfest;

• Uncovering the details of the work-from-home arrangement afforded to noted WFH opponent Malcolm Gladwell;

• Writing near-daily dispatches from the federal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried (and covering his 2022 downfall in close detail);

• Shining a spotlight, since 2020, on the growing influence of Hindu nationalism in the United States;

• Explaining why the phaseout of the music-notation software Finale is a big deal;

• Detailing, at length, my experience as a contributor to Twitter’s Community Notes;

• Gaining access to the Facebook Papers and writing a series about some of their most startling yet undercovered revelations;

• Reporting on labor organizing in the fast-food, music, media, gaming, and automotive industries (and on labor troubles across the tech sector);

• Talking with UFC fans in the Las Vegas Valley about their politics;

• Interviewing luminaries like Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, Shyne, Raekwon, Dave Davies, RZA and Jim Jarmusch, Big Boi and Sleepy Brown, Lisa Graves and Nancy MacLean, Rep. Ro Khanna, Jared Hess and Tyler Measom, the “Sickos” cartoonist (Ward Sutton), “the Menswear Guy” (Derek Guy), and the minds behind “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”;

• Breaking down the bizarre economics of creator compensation at Spotify, Peloton, and the controversial NFT company HitPiece;

• Contributing to major editorial projects like “Sly as Fox,” “The Oral History of Pitchfork,” “The 40 Greatest Stand-Alone TV Episodes of All Time,” “Fast-Food Week,” “Two Bad,” “The 16 Gangs That Rule American Politics,” “Airplane Mode,” “80 Over 8o,” “Goodbye, Trumpworld,” “The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years,” and our political live blogs.

In addition, I’ve spoken about these pieces (and more besides) on Slate podcasts like ICYMI, the Culture Gabfest, What Next, and What Next: TBD, as well as on other shows, such as CBS News, On the Media, This Week in Tech, The War on Cars, Real Talk, Texas Standard, The Attitude With Arnie Arnesen, Vox’s Today, Explained, and SiriusXM’s Michelangelo Signorile Show, Laura Coates Show, and Julie Mason Mornings. My written work has been reprinted and spotlighted in publications like the New York Times, Mother Jones, Vox, NBC News, Business Insider, Scroll.in, the Wire India and the India Cable, Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, the Tampa Bay Times, Grist, CNN, the Atlantic, New York magazine, Gothamist, Streetsblog, the Marshall Project, MIT Technology Review, the Verge, Poynter, Nieman Lab, the Morning News, RealClearMarkets, Ritholtz, Politico, CoinDesk, Futurism, Morning Brew, Links I Would Gchat You, Today in Tabs, Reliable Sources, Aftermath, the Week, Front Office Sports, Inverse, the Daily Kos, and Yahoo Finance.

I graduated from Michigan State University in 2017 with a Professional Writing degree, specializing in editing and publishing.

Follow me on Bluesky. (I deleted X/Twitter.) My email is nitishpahwa47@gmail.com.