NEW YORK, NY (July 22, 2025) - The Verge today launched a suite of homepage and editorial product updates aimed at deepening its direct relationship with readers. The announcement includes a new feature that allows readers to follow topics and individual Verge journalists, view those stories in a personalized feed on the homepage, and receive them via a daily digest email. Over the next month, the site will also launch several new editorial newsletters: a daily free flagship newsletter to give readers even more options for how they access The Verge, and multiple subscriber-exclusive offerings that will join Alex Heath's Command Line and Tom …

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Hayden Field is joining The Verge as a senior AI reporter, where she will lead coverage of the biggest names in AI - including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Apple, and others - while also reporting on how these tools are being used, how they're reshaping society, and how regulators are responding. Field joins The Verge from CNBC, where she closely tracked the rise of generative AI and the companies determining its future. She begins her role today.

"AI has the potential to be a fundamental shift in how we interact with technology and what we think computers can do," said Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge. "Hayden's reporting has …

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Tina Nguyen is joining The Verge as a senior reporter, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk's takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry's embrace of the MAGA movement. Nguyen joins The Verge from Puck, where she was a founding partner and national correspondent covering the evolution of the MAGA political ecosystem. Before that, Nguyen was a White House reporter for Politico and covered politics and media at Vanity Fair. She is the author of The MAGA Diaries: Life Among the Fanatics, Extremists, and True Believers that Created the Modern Right. She starts at The Verge this week.

"Tina is deeply sourced in the world o …

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The modern internet is nearly three decades old, and it's starting to show its age. Think back to the '90s: some of what we built back then, though groundbreaking, now feels outdated. The Verge recently created a special issue on what we were doing online in 2004, highlighting how Web 2.0 was born. Take a step back and think about how we interact, transact, and spend our time online. Are we clinging to old structures that no longer serve us? Is it time to remodel our digital lives and rethink how we're building our online experiences to better reflect the way we live today?

In this emerging AI era, the very ideas of community and human con …

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The Verge today announced a new weekly paid newsletter, "Notepad," uncovering the secrets and strategy behind Microsoft's era-defining bets on AI, gaming, and computing. Led by veteran Microsoft reporter and senior editor Tom Warren, subscribers will receive top analysis of the week's biggest Microsoft news, alongside all the news they might have missed. The first edition of "Notepad" is available Thursday, May 16th - subscribe here.

"Microsoft has been a leader in software and productivity for decades, and its aggressive entry into AI and big billion-dollar bets on gaming set Microsoft up for a very eventful and exciting next few years," s …

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The Verge's editor-in-chief Nilay Patel today announced that Kylie Robison is joining the site as senior AI reporter, where she'll lead the technology publication's coverage of artificial intelligence. She'll work closely with The Verge's policy and tech teams, delivering must-read coverage around the people and companies shaping the future of AI, how the technology is being developed and used by consumers and creators, and how it's changing the world - for good and for ill.

Robison joins The Verge from Fortune, where she was senior technology reporter and regularly broke news about Twitter / X. She authored the magazine's recent cover stor …

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The Verge's editor-in-chief Nilay Patel announced several changes to the industry-leading tech publication's masthead today, starting with the promotion of Jake Kastrenakes to executive editor.

Kastrenakes first joined The Verge as an intern in 2014 and has spent 10 years as a reporter and editor at the site, overseeing the news team, creators coverage, and the Hot Pod and Command Line newsletters. As executive editor Kastrenakes will be responsible for making sure The Verge's newsroom meets the highest standards of rigor and quality every single day.

"The Verge audience has incredibly high expectations of us and our work, and Jake has spe …

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Last week, the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announced that The Verge was a finalist in two categories for this year's National Magazine Awards. "The Year Twitter Died," a series exploring the influence and destruction of a social platform, is a finalist in the Design category; "AI Is a Lot of Work," Josh Dzieza's investigation into the human labor behind artificial intelligence, is a finalist in the feature writing category, in partnership with New York Magazine. These are The Verge's first finalists in these categories, and brings the total of nominations for the digital publisher to five over the past five years.

"It's such …

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