Adrian Chen joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2016. Previously, he was a staff writer at Gawker, from 2009 to 2013. His stories on Internet culture and technology have appeared in the Times Magazine, Wired, MIT Technology Review, The Nation and New York magazine. He is a founder of IRL Club, a live event series about the Internet, and a former contributor to the Onion News Network, the Onion’s first online video series. His story for Gawker exposing a notorious Internet troll won a 2013 Mirror Award from Syracuse University’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Reading List: Adrian Chen recommends Nick Paumgarten’s “The Death and Life of Atlantic City.”