Drew Harwell is a journalist at the Washington Post. He reports on how technology is reshaping modern life.

He writes about marathon streamers, far-right influencers, ICE propagandists, OnlyFans millionaires, runaway princesses, AI slop farmers, X clippers, TikTok stars, MAGA investors, FaceApp dads, Trump defectors, rioter hunters, doorbell voyeurs, robot coworkers and surveilled summer campers, among other topics.

His work has been honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist (2020, 2026) and by the Gerald Loeb (2022, 2024), George Polk (2021) and Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (2023, 2025, 2026) awards. He was a Livingston finalist in 2022.