I am a reporter, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. Currently, I work as a staff reporter at Nieman Lab, a publication at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. I cover the rise of AI and its impact on journalism and the media industry.
I began my career working as a journalist in Tokyo. I contributed to publications including The Japan Times and was an assistant editor at Metropolis, a print magazine that has served the English-speaking community in Japan for the past 25 years.
In 2019, I became the first editorial employee at Rest of World, an international nonprofit publication covering the impact of technology in non-Western countries. I was part of a small team that launched the publication in the spring of 2020. As a staff reporter at Rest of World, I worked alongside our growing global newsroom to cover social media companies, often with insights on platform accountability, disinformation, the creator economy, and internet culture. In my last year, I covered generative AI, data work, and the rise of large language models.
My reporting has been cited by publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Reuters, WIRED, and VICE News, as well as aggregated by Business Insider, TechCrunch, Newsweek, and Fortune. I regularly speak about my reporting on AI, including recent media appearances on PBS NewsHour and NPR’s The World, and panel appearances at RightsCon Taipei and at UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism. My feature “Vigilantes for Views“ won a South Asian Journalists Association Award and was selected as a Longreads “Best of 2023.” I hold a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, where I studied in the honors nonfiction writing program.
While often reporting news and analysis, much of my work is driven by a passion for narrative journalism and character-driven storytelling.
You can reach me at andrew_deck@harvard.edu.