“For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.”

American journalist, writer, and editor

Alex Pareene is an American journalist, writer, and editor. He is known for his work at several online news outlets, including leading Gawker as editor-in-chief and later taking senior editorial roles at Deadspin and Splinter News. He later became a staff writer at The New Republic. His career has centered on political and media commentary across digital publications. By 2022, he was publishing The AP Newsletter, extending the same critical voice into newsletter form.