Josh Dzieza is a feature writer at The Verge.
Dzieza’s story about about the global workforce that labels training data for artificial intelligence, a partnership with New York Magazine, was selected as a finalist for feature writing by the American Society of Magazine Editors. His story about New York food delivery workers for The Verge and New York Magazine was recognized with a Loeb Award for feature writing, a New York Press Club Award, and was a finalist for the James Beard Award for investigative reporting. It was also anthologized in Best American Food Writing.
Dzieza’s investigation into Foxconn’s failed Wisconsin factory, one of the largest business-development subsidies in US history, received a Deadline Club Society of Professional Journalists Award and a Sidney Award. He has also written about nomadic Amazon merchants, exterminators in rat-free Alberta, and the growing market for sand to replenish eroding beaches, which was a notable story in Best American Science and Nature Writing.
Prior to joining The Verge, Dzieza wrote for MIT Technology Review, Newsweek, and other publications. For Pacific Standard, he followed migratory beekeepers pollinating California’s almond crop to write about how the industry had responded to colony collapse disorder. The story received the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers.
