Investigations Editor
Josh Dzieza is a feature writer and investigations editor at The Verge, where he covers technology, science, business, and their human impacts. He joined The Verge in 2014 and has reported on topics including the strange world of Amazon Marketplace, Foxconn’s failed factory in Wisconsin, and the growing market for beach sand in a world of rising sea levels. In partnership with New York Magazine, he has also written cover stories on the hidden labor behind artificial intelligence and the difficulties facing app-based food delivery workers.
His work has been recognized with a Loeb Award for feature writing, a Science in Society Journalism Award, as a finalist for the James Beard award for investigative reporting, and as a finalist for feature writing by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
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Last Week Tonight’s segment about food delivery pulls heavily from Josh Dzieza’s terrific, award-winning feature, with a strong reminder to always tip.
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