Drew Harwell is a journalist at the Washington Post. He reports on how technology is reshaping modern life.
He writes about stalker cops, infinite streamers, far-right influencers, ICE propagandists, OnlyFans millionaires, runaway princesses, slop farmers, TikTok stars, Truth investors, FaceApp dads, rioter hunters, robot coworkers and smiling 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.
Recent media
KQED, Democracy Now, Question Everything, Today Explained, MS NOW, Al Jazeera, It's Been a Minute, What Next, Nieman Storyboard, Chris Hayes, On the Media, Fresh Air, CBC News, 1A, ABC News, Marketplace, Alex Wagner
Recent work
MAGA meltdown, influencer turncoat, superchat empire, war memes, AI dream girl, banality of evil, arrest merch, r/catbongos, destroy the flood, AI resurrection, face scanners, AI obituaries, a YouTuber in Lithuania, poster in chief
mail: hi@drewharwell.com
signal: @drewharwell.01