Natasha Singer

About

Natasha Singer is a reporter at The New York Times where she covers the intersection of business, technology and society with a particular focus on education and consumer privacy. She is currently writing a book for W.W. Norton on the meteoric rise of computer science education in U.S. public schools. She also teaches a tech accountability journalism course for high school students attending The School of The New York Times, the newspaper's pre-college program. In 2019, Ms. Singer was a member of a New York Times’ reporting team whose privacy coverage won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. Her earlier reporting on student tracking helped prompt California to enact the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act of 2014, a landmark law that limits the use of student data by school vendors. Before coming to the Times, Ms. Singer was a correspondent for Outside Magazine covering the environment and biodiversity. She also worked in Russia as the Moscow bureau chief of The Forward and was a founding editor of Russian Vogue. A Boston native, she graduated from Brown University with a degree in comparative literature. Natasha has been a guest on The Brian Lehrer Show; Marketplace Tech; The Takeaway; All Sides with Ann Fisher; and 1A. She has given talks, led workshops and moderated panels at the Brown University, Cornell, Columbia, New York University, Rochester Institute of Technology, the Computer Science Teachers Association and GSV Labs.