Jesse Singal

Jesse Singal (born 1983) is an American journalist and podcaster based in Brooklyn who covers social-science controversies and internet culture. He co-hosts the podcast Blocked and Reported with Katie Herzog and writes the newsletter Singal-Minded. He was previously a senior editor and writer-at-large at New York Magazine, where he ran the Science of Us vertical, and he has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Boston Globe. His first book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills, was published in April 2021, and his X account had about 147,000 followers in February 2023.