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Chase Hoffberger reported on YouTube, web culture, and crime for the Daily Dot until 2013, when he joined the Austin Chronicle. Until late 2018, he served as that paper’s news editor and reported on criminal justice and politics.

Chase Hoffberger

Unclick

Hobo Nick Kleckner completes his inspiring trip across America

Daily Dot Contributor

Unexpected perks for awesome webcomic artists

Tweets in Space event blasts off without a hitch

Based in Montreal, Kris Holt has been writing about technology and web culture since 2010. He writes for Engadget and Tech News World, and his byline has also appeared in Paste, Salon, International Business Times, Mashable, and elsewhere.

Kris Holt

How @blanket handled a Twitter hijacking

Meet Peter Vidani, Tumblr’s director of design

Imgur pulls the plug on Reddit’s “creepshots”

Falling down an Internet k-hole

Online dictionary, 37 years in the making, illuminates ancient Egyptian script

Aja Romano is a geek culture reporter and fandom expert. Their reporting at the Daily Dot covered everything from Harry Potter and anime to Tumblr and Gamergate. Romano joined Vox as a staff reporter in 2016.

Aja Romano

Wiki editors debate audio fiction’s place in fandom

Patriots fan taunts NFL star over recently deceased brother

Earth and Jupiter are in a relationship on Tumblr

#bravery: Larry fandom calls “bullsh*t” on One Direction denial

Lorraine Murphy is an Ottawa-based cybersecurity journalist and founding editor of the Cryptosphere. She has a keen interest in WikiLeaks and web culture, and her bylines have appeared in Salon, Vanity Fair, Serious Eats, and elsewhere.

Lorraine Murphy

Exclusive footage of Anonymous hacker’s arrest emerges

Justin Franz is a Montana-based reporter and photographer who wrote about web culture for the Daily Dot. His work has more recently appeared in Flathead Living Magazine, Trains Magazine, and Travel + Leisure.

Justin Franz

Maine Memes page strives to outrank state’s leading politicians

Facebook’s “I Voted” button generated 340,000 votes, study says