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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

Americans petition to deport petitioners petitioning to secede

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

The 2012 election in controversial YouTube videos

Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.

Fernando Alfonso III

Behind the scenes at Tumblr HQ: Live-GIFing the VP debate

Fidel Martinez is a web culture and politics reporter. His work for the Daily Dot focused on Reddit and YouTube.

Fidel Martinez

Presidential debate reactions: Gotye, Kanye, and Big Bird’s WTF moment

GIF artist Bobby Finger adds a “personal touch” to presidential debates

Mike Fenn is a former contributor to the Daily Dot whose beats included Reddit, YouTube, and all things WTF. His work has also appeared in Forbes and News.com.au.

Mike Fenn

A sit down with @InvisibleObama

Kevin Morris is a veteran web reporter and editor who specializes in longform journalism. He led the Daily Dot’s esports vertical and, following its acquisition by GAMURS in late 2016, launched Dot Esports, where he serves as the site’s editor-in-chief.

Kevin Morris

Revealed! Traffic stats on President Obama’s Reddit AMA

Daily Dot Contributor

Wattpad’s unlikely literary revolution

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

Cryptome founder John Young on documents, disclosures, and the competition

A former senior politics reporter for the Daily Dot, Kevin Collier focuses on privacy, cybersecurity, and issues of importance to the open internet. Since leaving the Daily Dot in March 2016, he has served as a reporter for Vocativ and a cybersecurity correspondent for BuzzFeed.

Kevin Collier

Extradition order upheld in copyright case

Prominent activists draft Declaration of Internet Freedom

Looking back at Ron Paul’s social-media revolution

Exclusive: Tron Guy wows ROFLcon with speech on how to stop CISPA

David Holmes is a technology and politics reporter. His work has appeared in Fast Company, the Guardian, the Daily Beast, and Stereogum. In 2011, he wrote the acclaimed &#8220;The Fracking Song (My Water&#8217;s on Fire Tonight) based on ProPublica&#8217;s investigation on hydraulic fractured gas drilling.

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