Vox editor-in-chief Swati Sharma and editorial director for politics, policy, and ideas Libby Nelson announced today that Caitlin Dewey is joining the brand as senior writer and editor for the Today, Explained newsletter. As the host of Vox’s flagship daily newsletter, Dewey will be responsible for helping Vox’s audience understand the biggest news stories and conversations affecting our world. She starts on December 15.
“Caitlin is a unique voice and talent in the newsletter realm; her background in rigorous journalism, and in writing an approachable, reader-friendly newsletter, make her the perfect fit to helm Today, Explained. We’re excited to work with her to reimagine what the newsletter looks like in 2026 and beyond,” Nelson said.
Dewey’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Elle, Slate, and The Cut, among other outlets. She began her career covering technology for the Washington Post, where she served as the paper’s first digital culture critic, and later moved to the Post’s national policy desk. In 2018, she returned to her native Western New York and spent five years as an enterprise and investigative reporter for the Buffalo News. She has worked as a contributing writer for Vanity Fair and Stateline and taught at Syracuse University and the Poynter Institute. She is also the author and publisher of the long-running independent newsletter Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends, which she will continue to publish after joining Vox.
The Today, Explained franchise also extends to Vox’s award-winning podcast of the same name, which was recently ranked No. 37 on Spotify’s list of the top 50 podcasts of 2025 and entered the top 10 on Podtrac’s industry ranking.
When Vox was founded in 2014, it was animated by a simple observation: The media did a good job of reporting the news and commenting on it, but there was a disconnect between that work and the audience truly understanding why something happened. Vox started as — and remains — an organization dedicated to addressing that gap, which not only persists but has grown.
We are proud to have popularized explanatory journalism in many forms, across many mediums. Our work has been used to educate people everywhere, from elementary schools to college classrooms to vaccination sites in Taiwan to footnotes in congressional memos.
