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Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) is an American journalist. Manjoo was a staff writer for Slate magazine from 2008 to September 2013, when they left to join The Wall Street Journal.[1] In January 2014, they joined The New York Times, replacing David Pogue as the technology columnist.[2] Manjoo became an opinion columnist at the paper in 2018.[3] They have also been a contributor to National Public Radio since 2009.[4]

Farhad Manjoo
Farhad Manjoo in 2008
Born	1978 (age 43–44) South Africa
Occupation	Journalist, author
Language	English
Nationality	American
Education	Cornell University

Early and personal life

Manjoo was born in South Africa in 1978 to a family with ancestral roots in India. The family left South Africa when Manjoo was eight years old,[5] and moved to Southern California.[1] Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. As an undergraduate, Manjoo served as writer and editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun student newspaper.[1]

A cisgender man, Manjoo wrote in the New York Times that they prefer to be referred to with singular they pronouns.[6] Manjoo publicly disclosed their struggle with esophageal achalasia in 2019.[7]

Career

Manjoo wrote for Wired News before taking a staff position at Salon.com. In July 2008, they accepted a job at Slate magazine writing a twice-weekly technology column. In September 2013, they joined The Wall Street Journal as a technology columnist;[1] their final column for Slate, urging men to wear makeup, was published on September 20.[8] They moved to The New York Times in 2014.

Manjoo has written about technology, new media,[9] politics,[10] and controversies in journalism.[11]

They are the author of the book True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.[12][13][14]

They shared the 2018 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for the story "Ouster at Uber."[15]

In March 2018, they published a column in the Times about a personal experiment in getting most of their news from print sources for two months.[16] The piece drew criticism from the Columbia Journalism Review[17] and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism[18] for the article's assertion Manjoo had "unplugged from Twitter" for this period when in fact they continued to use the social media service every day. Manjoo felt the piece was sufficiently clear that they made exceptions to their "unplugged" policy, and The New York Times stood by the piece.[17] WNYC's On the Media removed a segment with Manjoo discussing the experiment.[19][20]

In April 2021, their column "Let's Quit Fetishizing the Single-Family Home", was used for the Abitur high school leaving exams in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.[21][22]

References

External links

• Farhad Manjoo articles at The New York Times
• Farhad Manjoo articles at Slate.com
• Farhad Manjoo articles at Salon.com
• Farhad Manjoo pieces on NPR
• Farhad Manjoo articles at Fast Company
• Helen Bailey and Farhad Manjoo at NYTimes.com

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