Caitlin Dewey
Buffalo News journalist
About Caitlin Dewey
Caitlin Dewey is a freelance writer and occasional essayist based in Buffalo, New York. Her diverse career has seen her hiring fake boyfriends, mucking out cow barns, and facing online mobs to uncover stories for publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Cut, Elle, Slate, Cosmopolitan, The Counter, and Medium’s OneZero.
Caitlin began her journalism journey covering technology for The Washington Post, where she was the paper’s inaugural digital culture critic. She later transitioned to the national policy desk, focusing on the politics and economics of the modern food system. In 2018, she returned to Western New York due to family responsibilities and spent five years as an enterprise and investigative reporter at The Buffalo News. Today, Caitlin is a contributing writer at Stateline, an advisor to the Poynter-Koch Journalism and Media Fellowship program, and the author of the long-running weekly newsletter “Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends,” praised by media critic David Carr as “witty and intelligent.”
Caitlin has been honored with an 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley, among other accolades. She has also appeared as a guest on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, and NBC’s Today Show.
Residing in Buffalo with her husband and their rescue dog, Nemo, Caitlin is available for freelance work.