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Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) is an American journalist. Manjoo was a staff writer for Slate magazine from 2008 to September 2013, when they left to join The Wall Street Journal. In January 2014, they joined The New York Times, replacing David Pogue as the technology columnist. Manjoo became an opinion columnist at the paper in 2018. They have also been a contributor to National Public Radio since 2009. "Farhad Manjoo Talks You Into Joining Facebook", National Public Radio, February 17, 2009.
They were self-described in The New York Times as a "stereotypical, cisgender, middle-aged suburban dad," and said in 2019 that they prefer to be referred to with singular they pronouns. Manjoo publicly disclosed their struggle with esophageal achalasia in 2019.
Manjoo has written about technology, new media,Mitchell, Dan. "The Thin Skin of Apple Fans", The New York Times, March 22, 2008. politics,Farhad Manjoo. "Rumors Reasons", The New York Times, March 16, 2008. and controversies in journalism.Kristoff, Nicholas D. "The Daily Me", The New York Times, March 18, 2009.
They are the author of the book True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.Hesse, Monica. "Truth: Can You Handle It?", The Washington Post, April 27, 2008.Manjoo, Farhad (2008). . Wiley. Hluchy, Patricia. "Redefining truth in a 'post-fact society'", Toronto Star, April 20, 2008.
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. WNYC's On the Media removed a segment with Manjoo discussing the experiment.
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.
Their return to Slate was published on the 26th of April 2024, with the first of r/Farhad, an occasional column about interesting things they've read on Reddit.
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