Manjoo wrote for
Wired News before taking a staff position at
Salon.com. In July 2008, they accepted a job at
Slate magazine writing a twice-weekly technology column. In September 2013, they joined
The Wall Street Journal as a technology columnist; They moved to
The New York Times in 2014, and left in 2023. Manjoo has written about technology,
new media,
politics, and controversies in journalism. They are the author of the book
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. They shared the 2018
Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for the story "Ouster at Uber." In March 2018, they published a column in the
Times about a personal experiment in getting most of their news from print sources for two months. The piece drew criticism from the
Columbia Journalism Review and the
Nieman Foundation for Journalism for the article's assertion Manjoo had "unplugged from
Twitter" for this period when in fact they continued to use the social media service every day. Manjoo felt the piece was sufficiently clear that they made exceptions to their "unplugged" policy, and
The New York Times stood by the piece. In April 2021, their column "Let's Quit Fetishizing the Single-Family Home" was used for the
Abitur high school leaving exams in the German state of
North Rhine-Westphalia. From April to the end of 2024 Manjoo returned to Slate with
r/Farhad, a occasional column about interesting things they read on
Reddit. ==References==