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, where in 2019, her feature on how Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, used Facebook to fuel the drug war in the country, won a Livingston Award for excellence in international reporting.
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.
