Dewey writes for the
Buffalo News and was formerly with
The Washington Post where she founded the
Posts blog
the Intersect. She was also the food policy writer for
Wonkblog, another
Post blog. She wrote an 82-week column for the
Post entitled "What Was Fake On The Internet This Week" (the blog ended in December 2015). Her reporting on
Gamergate, the harassment of women in the online gaming world, prompted a Congressional inquiry into the issue. She has won awards from, among other organizations, the Society of Features Journalism. Dewey published a daily newsletter about
Internet culture,
Links I would GChat you if we were friends, from 2014 to 2016. The work was a
Webby Award honoree in 2016. In 2020, during the
COVID-19 pandemic, Dewey resurrected the newsletter as a weekly email. ==Personal life==