Emily Dreyfuss (born 1983) is an American journalist. She is a Senior Fellow on the Technology and Social Change team at

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's Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy, where she edits the Media Manipulation Casebook and is the co-lead of the Harvard Shorenstein Center News Leaders program, which develops best practices for newsrooms to deal with misinformation. Dreyfuss was a 2018 Nieman Berkman Klein Fellow, the founding editorial director of the tech news site Protocol, and a Senior Editor and Writer at

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Career

Dreyfuss told

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that she began her career at a local paper in

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, then moved to an alt-weekly, and entered tech journalism in 2007 when she joined

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. She co-hosted a podcast with CNET and ran the website's homepage and social media accounts. Dreyfuss joined

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in 2014 as News Editor, and served as the editor of the opinion section, the cybersecurity section, and the founding editor of the national affairs section that was created to cover the 2016 presidential election. In 2019 she left WIRED to found Protocol, a tech news site created by the publisher of Politico to cover the "people, power, and politics" of tech. In 2020, she joined the Shorenstein Center. Dreyfuss has appeared on

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, C-SPAN, ABC News, NPR, Fox, and other broadcast news programs. In 2018, Dreyfuss hosted an episode of the radio program On Point from

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and was featured on tour with PopUp Magazine, where she performed a story about the experience of yelling at an

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, which was later published in text form by WIRED. Dreyfuss' writing has appeared in ''

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'',

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, ''

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'', ''Mother Jones'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and elsewhere. Dreyfuss is a keynote speaker, represented by APB speakers bureau, and has delivered keynotes on topics such as algorithmic bias, social media harms, remote work, and the impacts of tech on society and personality.

Personal life

Dreyfuss is the oldest child of actors

Richard Dreyfuss Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (; born Dreyfus; October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for starring in popular films during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, including ''American Graffiti'' (1973), ''Jaws'' (1975), ''Close Encounters of the T ...

and

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, and the sister of journalist

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and actor Harry Dreyfuss. She is married to geneticist

Seth Shipman Seth Shipman (born 1983) is an American scientist. Shipman is an assistant professor at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco, where he researches synthetic biology, genetics, and neuroscience. Education He ...

References

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