I am a reporter, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. I currently work as a staff reporter at Nieman Lab, a publication of Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, where I cover artificial intelligence and its impacts on journalism. My reporting spans topics including labor, deepfakes, copyright law, and emerging business models.
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. After launching the publication the following spring, I worked as a staff reporter covering global social media companies with a focus on platform accountability, digital rights, disinformation, and the creator economy. In my final year there, I reported extensively on generative AI and the rise of large language models.
I began my career as a journalist in Tokyo. I contributed to The Japan Times and worked as an assistant editor at Metropolis, a 25-year-old print magazine. At Metropolis, I edited freelance pieces and wrote features, including a cover story on labor issues at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
My writing has also appeared in The Nation and Popular Mechanics, and my reporting has been cited by The New York Times, The Guardian, WIRED, Business Insider, and VICE News. I regularly speak about AI, including recent appearances on PBS NewsHour and NPR’s The World, and panel discussions at RightsCon Taipei, the Chanel Media Talks, and UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism. My feature “Vigilantes for Views“ won a South Asian Journalists Association Award and was selected as one of Longreads “Best of 2023.”
I grew up in Japan and hold a B.A. in English from Brown University, where I worked at student publications, including as a features editor at The College Hill Independent. My work is always guided by a passion for narrative journalism and character-driven storytelling.
You can reach me at andrew_deck@harvard.edu.