Christine Lagorio-Chafkin is a reporter, author, and podcast host based in New York. Her book about Reddit and Internet culture, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory, was named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company.

Her reporting about business, education, innovation, and culture, has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, New York, Vanity Fair, and other publications. Most recently she was editor at large of Inc. magazine, where she wrote features and co-hosted and produced Inc.’s From the Ground Up podcast. She created and hosted the What I Know podcast, a long-form interview show. Prior to Inc., she was a writer for CBS News. She began her career interning for The Village Voice’s legendary investigative reporter Wayne Barrett, and writing for about urban policy for City Limits, art criticism for Bomb magazine, and book reviews for The Believer.

Her expertise on founders, platforms, social-media moderation, regulation of Silicon Valley, and many other topics has been featured on NPR’s 1A, Marketplace, MSNBC, and many publications. For speaking engagements or interviews, send inquiries here.

Her researching, writing, and editing is wide-ranging. She’s contributed research, chapters, and revisions to books about Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 and William James’s scientific inquiry into ghost hunting. For ghostwriting, research, and consulting, drop a note here.

Lagorio-Chafkin grew up on a sheep farm and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in New York City with her three kids, two cats, and one husband.