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Steven Winkelman

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New York, United States
As seen in: Android Police, MSN, Digital Trends, Entrepreneur, PC Mag Middle East, PC Magazine Australia, PCMag, PCMag India, PCMag UK, NewsBreak, WANF-TV (Atlanta, GA) and
Covers:  Tech, Internet Culture, Socially Engaged Art, Literature
Doesn't Cover: Cryptocurrency, B2B Tech, Marketing, Blockchain
Managing Editor — Evergreen @androidpolice. Don’t respond to DMs from strangers. Opinions are mine.

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I’m an investigative journalist covering the tech sector for PCMag. The mobile industry is my main beat, but I also write about affective responses to tech.

I completed my MA in journalism in 2016. My expertise is in new media journalism, computer-assisted reporting, and data journalism.

In addition to tech, I write about socially engaged art and literature.

Steven Winkelman’s Journalist Portfolio

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I moved my second brain to Obsidian to escape cloud lock-in

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By Parth Shah Verified, Steven Winkelman Verified
| Android Police Verified
For years, no note app on Android stuck. I tried almost every kind of personal knowledge management setup you can think of. I have used simple note-taking apps, polished all-in-one workspaces, task managers pretending to be second brains, and cloud-first tools. That cycle finally ended when I gave Obsidian a proper shot on Android. It took a little setup, but after everything clicked, I realized why so many people swear by it.
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How I found the Android launcher that finally rivals the Google Pixel experience

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By Ben Khalesi, Steven Winkelman Verified
| Android Police Verified
Flagship Android phones are marvels of hardware engineering, but the moment my thumb swipes across the Google Pixel's home screen, a familiar feeling of jealousy hits. The Pixel experience is where every animation, widget, and menu feels like it was designed by one team with a single, clear vision. But that experience is a golden cage, locked exclusively to Google's hardware. For those of us who prefer hardware from other manufacturers, we're left looking in from the outside.
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Google Illuminate is quietly becoming the best research tool I didn't know I needed

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By Anu Joy Verified, Steven Winkelman Verified
| Android Police Verified
I didn’t expect much when I first tried Google Illuminate. It felt like just another experimental Google project I’d mess around with for five minutes and then forget. But after I fed it my first academic paper and heard the AI-generated podcast version, something clicked. Those dense PDFs I’d been avoiding for months suddenly stopped feeling like homework. Illuminate helped summarize research and translate it into something I could absorb on a busy day.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first job

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, and I never want to use one again.

How is social media changing news?

Social media is killing media literacy. Many people cannot tell the difference between news, commentary, opinion, and sponcon.