Cecilia D'Anastasio reports on video games, the creator economy, platform governance, esports and anime. Her reporting methods include embedding in virtual worlds and investigative data journalism. She is a reporter at Bloomberg News. Previously, she worked for WIRED and Kotaku. Her words have also appeared in VICE, The Nation, Jezebel, Gothamist and the Columbia Journalism Review. She writes an infrequently-updated metal newsletter called Tar Pit.

Cecilia was included among Forbes’ 2021 “30 Under 30” in media and named SXSW’s first Game Industry Journalist of the Year in 2020. In 2019, she won the Writers Guild award for digital news writing, the International Game Developers Association’s Positive Impact Award and the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism presented by the New York Videogame Critics Circle. In 2018, Cecilia was listed among Variety’s “Most Influential In Video Games.” She was nominated for the 2022 and 2023 Esports Awards’ “Esports Journalist of the Year.”

Some reporting highlights below:

Contributed Research:

  • "The Real Death Valley," a joint investigation by the Weather Channel, Telemundo and The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund. In 2015, the investigation received an Emmy for “Outstanding Investigative Journalism in Spanish”

  • "Home Is Where The Hate Is," a joint investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting and The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund. A database of nine years of domestic terrorism incidents

Radio/TV Interviews:

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