Caitlin Dewey

Caitlin Dewey Rainwater (née Dewey) is an American journalist, essayist and a cultural commentator who runs the Links ,"I Would G-Chat You If We Were Friends newsletter".

As of May 2024, she works as a freelance writer. She previously wrote for the Buffalo News,^[1] which she joined after leaving The Washington Post where she founded the paper's blog," The Intersect".

Early life and education

Dewey grew up in Buffalo, New York.^[2] She graduated from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she won The New York Times' 2012 "Modern Love: College Essay Contest".^[3]

Career

Dewey writes for the Buffalo News and was formerly^[when?] with The Washington Post where she founded the Post's blog the Intersect. Dewey was also the food policy writer for Wonkblog, another Post blog. She wrote an 82-week column for the Post entitled "What Was Fake On The Internet This Week" (the blog ended in December 2015).^[4]

Her reporting on Gamergate, the harassment of women in the online gaming world, prompted a Congressional inquiry into the issue. She has won awards from, among other organizations, the Society of Features Journalism.^[2]

Dewey published a daily newsletter about internet culture, Links I would GChat you if we were friends from 2014 to 2016.^[5] The work was a Webby Award honoree in 2016.^[6] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dewey resurrected the newsletter as a weekly email.^[7]

Personal life

She married Jason Rainwater, whom she met online.^[8] After adopting a dual last name, she found that few people gave equal weight to both names.^[9]