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Kendra Barnett

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  • Senior Tech Reporter, Adweek
New York
Covers:  Big tech, media, adtech, advertising, emerging tech, AI, data protection, data privacy, tech policy, tech ethics, regulation, brands
Senior tech reporter @Adweek. In another life, poet & Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist. Armchair philosopher. Send tips via Signal: kendra.16

Kendra Barnett’s Biography

Kendra Barnett is a senior tech reporter at Adweek based in New York, where she covers adtech, platforms and big tech. She previously served as associate editor of The Drum, where she helmed the publication's coverage on media, platforms and adtech. She has a special interest in tech ethics and regulation.

Prior to joining The Drum, she spent a number of years working in the digital marketing space as an editorial lead and copywriter — and enjoyed a brief stint as an English teacher in Japan.

Outside of her work as a journalist, she is a poet and Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist with work appearing in the American Literary Review, Into the Void Magazine, Emrys Journal, The Evansville Review and more. She holds a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Cambridge.