Ryan Mac
Ryan Mac | |
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| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) |
| Notable works | Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter (2024) |
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| Ryan Mac - New York Times | |
Ryan Mac is a Vietnamese-American writer and journalist who works for the The New York Times.[1][2] He has previously worked as a reporter at Buzzfeed News and Forbes. Mac was awarded the 2019 Mirror Award and the 2020 George Polk Award for his reporting on Facebook.[3][4] He is the co-author of 2024's Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.[5]
Education
[edit]Ryan Mac attended Stanford University from 2007 to 2011. Initially a pre-med student, Mac began writing stories for the Stanford Daily at the end of his freshman year. As a staff writer, Mac often published about new musical releases and music festivals for the Daily's arts section.[6]
Throughout college, Mac served as a reporting intern at the Half Moon Bay Review, New York Times, Bay Citizen, OC Register, and Bloomberg L.P.[7]
Career
[edit]From 2011 to 2017, Mac worked as a staff writer for Forbes, compiling their annual list of billionaires before transitioning into covering tech startups and companies. Mac also continued to cover music, interviewing top-earning DJs such as Calvin Harris, Steve Aoki, and Avicii.[8][9][10] Mac also had the privilege of interviewing American rapper Riff Raff in 2014.[11] In 2016, Mac reported on Peter Thiel, who had been secretly funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker (Bollea v. Gawker).[12] Alongside reporter Matt Drange, Mac was a 2017 Gerald Loeb Award finalist in the 'Breaking News Category' for their coverage of Gawker.[13]
From 2017 to 2021, Mac worked as a senior technology reporter for Buzzfeed News. In 2018, Mac reported on Elon Musk and Vernon Unsworth, a British cave diver who played an instrumental role in the Tham Luang cave rescue. Mac released a series of email correspondences that revealed Musk had accused Unsworth of being a "child rapist" who had "married a child".[14] Both these claims by Musk were found to be false.[14] In one of Musk's emails to Buzzfeed News, he referred to Mac as a "f**king asshole".[14] These emails were later referenced during Unsworth's $190 million defamation suit against Musk.[15]
Mac was one of ten journalists whose accounts were suspended on X (formerly Twitter) by Elon Musk on December 15, 2022. Mac's Twitter account was unsuspended by Musk 2 days later. [16]
In September of 2024, Mac and co-author Kate Conger released Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,[17] which covers Musk's poorly executed $44-billion-dollar acquisition of Twitter.[18]
Personal life
[edit]Ryan Mac is an avid supporter of Arsenal Football Club. [2][19]
References
[edit]- ^ Mac, Ryan (September 12, 2020). "At 82, My Grandmother Has Lost Her Husband — and the World as She Knows It". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ a b "Ryan Mac Joining Technology Team". The New York Times Company (Press release). June 24, 2021. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Past Winners". Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Buzzfeed News Wins George Polk Award". BuzzFeed News. February 24, 2021. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "The inside story of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Alumni Spotlight: Ryan Mac '11 – Stanford Daily Alumni". The Stanford Daily. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Ryan Mac". Muckrack. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
- ^ "Calvin Harris: From Supermarkets To Superstardom". Youtube. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Steve Aoki On Being The World's Hardest-Working DJ". Youtube. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Technology, Music And The Rise of Avicii". Youtube. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Jody Highrollin' With Riff Raff In Las Vegas".
- ^ "This Silicon Valley Billionaire Has Been Secretly Funding Hulk Hogan's Lawsuits Against Gawker".
- ^ "Finalists vie for nation's top honor given to journalists in business, financial reporting". Retrieved September 24, 2024.
- ^ a b c "In A New Email, Elon Musk Accused A Cave Rescuer Of Being A "Child Rapist" And Said He "Hopes" There's A Lawsuit". BuzzFeed News. September 4, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Elon Musk did not defame British cave explorer, jury finds". The Guardian. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Twitter Suspends Journalist Accounts". New York Times. December 15, 2022. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ "CHARACTER LIMIT | Kirkus Reviews". Retrieved September 22, 2024 – via kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ "The inside story of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ ttps://www.patreon.com/posts/podcast-limit-113659007 "PODCAST! Character Limit". Patreon. Retrieved October 10, 2024.