About US National Wire

Devon Marsh

Silicon Valley startups & VC

Devon reports on Silicon Valley's startup founders, funding rounds, and the venture-capital ecosystem behind them.

Alicia Ferro

fintech & payments

Alicia covers fintech and payments, tracking where the money actually moves.

Marcus Whitfield

Big Tech accountability

Marcus holds Big Tech accountable, from platform policy shifts to antitrust fights.

Nate Okafor

crypto & web3

Nate covers crypto and web3 with a realist's eye, three market cycles in.

Dana Kessler

cybersecurity & privacy

Dana covers cybersecurity and privacy, from breaches to the policies meant to prevent them.

Jordan Wexler

consumer tech & gadgets

Jordan reviews consumer tech and gadgets, testing every claim against real-world use.

Renee Castillo

enterprise software & SaaS

Renee covers enterprise software and SaaS, measuring every deal by ROI.

Tobias Lund

telecom & connectivity

Tobias covers telecom and connectivity, translating carrier fine print for consumers.

Grant Ishida

gaming & interactive

Grant covers gaming and interactive media as both a business and a culture story.

Bianca Solis

climate & clean tech

Bianca covers climate and clean tech, tracking what's actually been built and deployed.

Grace Delaney

health tech & biotech

Grace covers health tech and biotech, holding every claim to the peer-reviewed data.

Leo Abernathy

chips & semiconductors

Leo covers chips and semiconductors, tracing the global supply chain behind every shortage.

Chloe Winslow

retail & e-commerce tech

Chloe covers retail and e-commerce tech, from checkout flow to fulfillment.

Malik Reyes

creator economy & platforms

Malik covers the creator economy, tracking platforms, payouts, and monetization.

Diana Voss

tech policy & antitrust

Diana covers tech policy and antitrust, explaining what new rules actually change.

Owen Pearce

M&A / IPOs / exits

Owen covers tech M&A, IPOs, and exits with a dispassionate deals lens.

Farah Nasrallah

access & inclusion in tech

Farah covers access and inclusion in tech, asking who gets left off the roadmap.

Trent Calloway

the contrarian

Trent is the tech desk's contrarian, testing consensus opinion before it hardens.

Simone Larkin

the futurist

Simone is the tech desk's futurist, tracing today's decisions to tomorrow's defaults.

Cole Fenwick

space & defense tech

Cole covers space and defense tech, following the contracts behind the launches.

Priyanka Sethi

frontier AI labs

Priyanka covers the frontier AI labs, sourcing what's real behind the announcements.

Felix Amaro

AI research, decoded

Felix decodes AI research papers, explaining what a result actually proves.

Sierra Nakamura

AI compute & energy

Sierra covers AI compute and energy, tracking the power behind the models.

Preston Doyle

AI in the enterprise

Preston covers AI in the enterprise, measuring adoption against the hype.

Rosalind Kepler

AI safety

Rosalind covers AI safety research, from alignment work to red-team findings.

Andre Vaughn

AI policy & regulation

Andre covers AI policy and regulation, from statehouses to Capitol Hill.

Kai Sorensen

agents & coding tools

Kai covers AI agents and coding tools, building with them before writing about them.

Monica Alvarado

AI and the future of work

Monica covers AI and the future of work, checking displacement claims against labor data.

Theo Marchand

open-source AI models

Theo covers open-source AI models and the community building on open weights.

Vanessa Cole

AI economics & the bubble question

Vanessa covers AI economics, following the capital behind the AI boom.

Nolan Osei

AI and media

Nolan covers AI and media, from licensing deals to deepfakes.

Desmond Hale

AI infrastructure & data centers

Desmond covers AI infrastructure and data centers, from land deals to power contracts.

Anita Rowe

AI in healthcare & science

Anita covers AI in healthcare and science, holding every claim to the clinical evidence.

Julian Forsythe

AI in education

Julian covers AI in education, reporting from actual classrooms.

Camille Fairweather

AI ethics & bias

Camille covers AI ethics and bias, auditing training data and model behavior.

Soren Kade

robotics & embodied AI

Soren covers robotics and embodied AI, separating real deployments from staged demos.

Isabel Trench

AI venture & startups

Isabel covers AI venture funding and startups, pricing the hype against the term sheet.

Dante Ruiz

consumer AI products

Dante covers consumer AI products, living inside the assistant apps he reviews.

Harlan Stroud

the AI skeptic

Harlan is the AI desk's skeptic, demanding the eval behind every claim.

Wren Castellano

the AI futurist

Wren is the AI desk's futurist, tracing today's models to tomorrow's industries.

Dutch Callahan

NFL

Dutch covers the NFL with a decade of Sunday authority.

Marlon Rhodes

NBA

Marlon covers the NBA through both the box score and the locker room.

Sal Dimarco

MLB

Sal has covered MLB as a lifer, tracking every pitch by hand.

Erik Halvorsen

NHL

Erik covers the NHL league-wide, with trade-deadline instincts for all thirty-two teams.

Beau Tatum

college football

Beau covers college football, from recruiting classes to coordinator hires.

Nadia Brenner

college basketball

Nadia covers college basketball, tracking mid-major programs from November to March.

Holt Lowry

sports business & TV rights

Holt covers sports business and TV rights, reading media deals like term sheets.

Talia Okoro

sports analytics

Talia covers sports analytics, building the charts that explain the stats.

Wes Calder

sports betting industry

Wes covers the sports betting industry as a business beat, not a tip sheet.

Marisol Vega

Olympic & niche sports

Marisol covers Olympic and niche sports through the full four-year cycle.

Diego Mercer

soccer in America

Diego covers soccer in America, from MLS to the US national teams.

Renata Vance

sports medicine & science

Renata covers sports medicine and science, evidence-first on every injury timeline.

Casey Mabry

waiver-wire targets

Casey covers waiver-wire targets, finding next week's starter this week.

Corinne Ashworth

injury impact analysis

Corinne covers injury impact analysis, translating medical reports into lineup decisions.

Bobby Teague

start/sit matchups

Bobby covers start/sit matchups with fast, plain-spoken matchup math.

Layla Chen

dynasty & rookies

Layla covers dynasty leagues and rookies, thinking in three-year windows.

Emmett Cruz

trade value

Emmett covers trade value, pricing deals like a front office would.

Nico Bardsley

DFS industry

Nico covers the DFS industry, from lineup construction to ownership trends.

Whitney Solano

the fantasy industry itself

Whitney covers the fantasy industry itself — platforms, payouts, and the business behind the games.

Oscar Renfrew

data-driven rankings analysis

Oscar covers data-driven fantasy rankings, building and publishing his own model.