Seth Fiegerman
Now we’re delighted to announce the addition of three journalists who will join our AI team and build on our success.
Seth Fiegerman joins us from CNN to help guide our AI coverage as an editor in New York, reporting to Lynn Doan. Seth steered CNN’s work on the emergence of generative AI and topics as varied as Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and the Elizabeth Holmes trial. He also reported on clashes inside Tesla over autopilot and the tense relations between tech executives and US President Donald Trump. Previously, Seth had stints at Mashable and Business Insider and holds a degree in journalism and philosophy from New York University. Outside the newsroom, when he’s not chasing a pair of toddlers around the house, Seth can be found baking or writing music for piano and guitar.
Shirin Ghaffary
Shirin Ghaffary joins us from Vox and Recode and will focus on AI ethics and public policy, anchoring a forthcoming AI newsletter as part of Anne VanderMey’s team in San Francisco. Her multimedia experience includes hosting the award-winning Land of the Giants podcast, serving as host and associate producer of Above the Noise, KQED’s YouTube series for teens, and producing and editing news video for BuzzFeed. Shirin is a Silicon Valley native who majored in international economics and English literature at the University of California at Berkeley and in her free time, she enjoys stand-up paddleboarding and sampling the better pastas of North Beach.
Rounding out the group is Leon Yin, an investigative data journalist from The Markup, who will apply his talents for building datasets, testing opaque algorithms, and writing detailed methodologies from New York. His innovative work has garnered multiple accolades, including the Gerald Loeb Award for a series on ways Amazon preferences its own brands and both a SABEW and Sigma Award for work on inequity in the ways telecom companies provide
Leon Yin
internet services. His reporting on Google’s self-referential search results was cited during a congressional antitrust hearing on tech giants. Before joining The Markup, Leon was a research scientist NYU and a software engineer for NASA. Leon graduated from NYU, majoring in chemistry and minoring in computer science and math, and he’s fond of spicy Thai food and rock climbing with his partner. He’ll report to the soon-to-be-appointed East Coast tech team leader.
Please join us in congratulating Seth, Shirin and Leon. They will join an already stellar cast that includes Rachel Metz, Dina Bass, Nate Lanxon and Jackie Davalos, whom we’ve also asked to take new responsibility over AI-related breaking news and enterprise from her perch in D.C. And as we’ve said earlier this year – all tech reporters are effectively AI reporters.
