Caitlin Dewey is a freelance writer and occasional essayist based in Buffalo, New York. She has hired fake boyfriends, mucked out cow barns and braved online mobs in pursuit of stories for outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Cut, Elle, Slate, Cosmopolitan, The Counter and Medium’s OneZero.

Caitlin began her career covering technology for The Washington Post, where she served as the paper’s first digital culture critic. She later moved to the Post’s national policy desk to write about the politics and economics of the modern food system. In 2018, family responsibilities called Caitlin back to Western New York. She spent five years as an enterprise and investigative reporter at her hometown paper, The Buffalo News. Today, she is a contributing writer at Vanity Fair and Stateline, an adjunct professor of magazine, newspaper and digital journalism at Syracuse University and the author of the long-running weekly newsletter “Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends," which the media critic David Carr called "witty and intelligent." 

Caitlin is the recipient of an 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley, among other honors and awards. She has appeared as a guest on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the BBC and NBC’s Today Show.

Caitlin lives in Buffalo with her husband and their rescue pup, Nemo. She’s available for freelance work.