Bio
Hello, my name is Tim de Gier. I'm a books editor of NRC in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Also, I co-founded podcast publishing-platform Dag en Nacht.
Previously I was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and presenter of Literaturfest, a literary show on stage and at festivals.
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Contact
- Email: timdegier@gmail.com
- Twitter: @timdegier
- PGP Fingerprint: 6E6F 3292 061C A3AC 3F5F 137D 699E E50B 0648 E4E3
Work
- My profile at The Nieman Foundation
- Website of Vrij Nederland
Projects
- The Turbo Blog on Tumblr, where I keep my blog, sometimes daily, sometimes monthly
- My old Wordpress site with longer articles
- This is @degier_ebooks, my bot on twitter that makes new tweets from my old tweets. I explain the whole thing (in dutch) in this blogpost
- Here is an overview of my twitter philosophy series, which is a series of interviews with twitterusers I like about their raison d'etre, the human condition and the universe. There's one in English, here
Latest writing in English
- Defense Against The Dark Arts: a cyber-security guide for journalists
- Previewing the US 2016 primaries, some forecasting you can use to bully me later
Selection of writing in Dutch
- You're a good man, Karl Marx: in defence of marxist critique
- The Literary Kurt Cobain, on David Foster Wallace and the nineties
- Grand Old Ladies: why are the best non-fiction writers all female and over seventy?
- Careless engineering, a conversation about evil algorithms
- Writing on the edge of the web, on Thomas Pynchon and Dave Eggers