Davey Alba
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Davey Alba is a New York-based technology reporter for Bloomberg News, covering Big Tech and its power in all its forms. Her work has spanned topics as diverse as online misinformation, facial recognition’s civil rights problems and sexual harassment in tech.
Over more than a decade of reporting, she has won prizes from the Mirror Awards, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the Deadline Club, and the Online Journalism Awards. She previously worked at The New York Times and BuzzFeed News. While at BuzzFeed News in 2019, her feature on how former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte used Facebook to fuel the country's drug war won a Livingston Award, which recognizes the best journalists in the U.S. under 35.
She grew up in Manila, Philippines, and moved to the United States in 2010, graduating from the Columbia Journalism School master of arts program in 2013, with a concentration in science journalism.
