About NANCY SCOLA

Nancy Scola is a journalist and features writer based in Washington D.C. who reports on technology, politics, public policy, and beyond. Her profile subjects have included Lina Khan, Pete Buttigieg, Senate “Bitcoin lady” Cynthia Lummis, Andrew Yang, Ken "The Congressman Who Doesn't Use Google" Buck, Code for America, FCC Chair Brendan Carr, antitrust advocate Matt Stoller, and the document fetishist Tom Blanton. She has reported on the political meaning of the autopen, how the Biden White House thought about artificial intelligence, the politics of AI, place-based visas, betting on elections, the death of cash, the rise of prediction markets, online "dark patterns," D.C.'s vegan food scene, boycotting Facebook, Airbnb’s push to take hold in Cuba, Google’s attempt to build a build a neighborhood in Toronto, Uber’s impact on city transportation across the United States, why Congress won’t go remote, and how Washington can’t quit X. She is a contributing writer at both Politico Magazine and Washingtonian Magazine, and her work has appeared in publications like New York Magazine, Wired, The Information, Inc. Magazine, and Fast Company.

llustration by Michael Hoeweler for POLITICO Magazine

Now an independent journalist working with a range of publications, Nancy has been a senior tech reporter at Politico and a staff writer at the Washington Post. She started her career in journalism writing the newsletter techPresident. Before coming to journalism, Nancy was a staffer on the Committee on Government Reform in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since 2019, she has served as a lecturer on journalism at Georgetown University. She frequently moderates event panels and book events, and has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC, and elsewhere. She co-hosted the Politico podcast “Global Translations” and has appeared on podcasts like "On the Media," "Offline with Jon Favreau," and Slate’s “What Next."

Nancy graduated from the George Washington University with a B.A. in anthropology and Africana studies, and holds a master’s degree from Boston University in anthropology. She was born and raised in New Jersey, and lives in Washington D.C.’s Hill East neighborhood. Get in touch.

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