Caitlin Dewey Rainwater
Caitlin Dewey Rainwater is an American journalist.
Rainwater writes for the Buffalo News and was formerly with the Washington Post where she founded the Posts blog the Intersect. Rainwater was also the food policy writer for Wonkblog, another Post blog. She wrote an 82-week column for the Post entitled "What Was Fake On The Internet This Week".
Her reporting on Gamergate, the harassment of women in the online gaming world, prompted a Congressional inquiry into the issue. She has won awards from, among other organizations, the Society of Features Journalism.
She graduated from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she won the New York Times 2012 "Modern Love: College Essay Contest".
