Caroline Mimbs Nyce is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers technology.
She writes about AI, social media, and our odd digital lives. She’s discussed her work on Marketplace, All Things Considered, and CBS News.
For three years, she wrote the magazine’s flagship nightly newsletter, The Daily. She helped guide readers through the early days of the pandemic, the 2020 election, and more. Before that, she worked in strategy, including on the team that built the organization’s iPhone app, which won the 2021 Shorty Award for best news app. She helped shape the magazine’s headline voice, wrote its SEO policy, and ran its social media accounts.
In 2022, she was one of 27 women selected for the Online News Association’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator. Today, she mentors early career journalists through Digital Women Leaders.
She is based in Los Angeles. She has a dog named Rooster, and fosters for a local animal rescue.
Writing
AI
I Witnessed the Future of AI, and It’s a Broken Toy
TikTok
‘Scar Girl’ Is a Sign That the Internet Is Broken
Please Get Me Out of Dead-Dog TikTok
Montana’s TikTok Ban Won’t Work
Tech support
Why It’s So Hard to Search Your Email
My New iPhone Is Making Me Look Uglier
The Apple Watch May Have a Calorie Problem
Wildfire
The Camp Fire Teens Are Adults Now
The World Needs to Start Planning for the Fire Age
Those Sequoias Didn’t Just Get Lucky
Other
A Single Website Has a Choke Hold on Surfing
The Winter Getaway That Turned the Software World Upside Down
We Got Lucky With the Mystery Dog Illness
For more, visit my Atlantic author page.