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Hi. I’m Newley Purnell. I cover technology for Bloomberg News, based in Hong Kong. You can find my recent stories here.

Previously, I was with The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, New Delhi and Singapore.

Among the awards I’ve won with colleagues:

The 2022 Loeb Award for beat reporting.
The 2022 New York Press Club Gold Keyboard Award
The 2021 George Polk Award
The 2021 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Excellence in Business Reporting Award
The 2022 Deadline Club Public Service Award
“Best in Business” awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) for 2021 and 2020
Colleagues and I were also finalists for a 2021 Loeb Award.

For news tips, you can send me email at: npurnell3@bloomberg.net. I’m also at newley@protonmail.com. (My personal email address is: n@newley.com.)
My mobile number is +85269099615
You can also direct message me on X (Twitter). I’m @Newley.
I’m @newley.bsky.social on Bluesky.
To contact me securely, you can reach me on Signal at the number above: +85269099615. You can download Signal here if you don’t have the app.

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I am married to the amazing Anasuya Sanyal.
We are owned by have an adorable dog named Ginger.
I grew up in two remarkable places: Eastern Oregon and the South Carolina Lowcountry.
I earned a BA in English from Emory University, where I played goalkeeper on the varsity soccer team.
I received a master’s in business and economics journalism from Columbia University in New York. At Columbia, I was fortunate to be a Gray International Reporting Fellow.
Some podcast interviews: In December 2019 I was on The Journal podcast to discuss a page one story I wrote about India changing rules for U.S. tech titans. I was also on The Journal podcast in July 2020 discussing Twitter, Facebook, Google and Hong Kong, and joined in May 2021 to talk about India, Covid-19, and social media.

I registered Newley.com in 1999, began posting material on the site in 2001, and have been blogging since January 2002.
Over the years, Newley.com has been mentioned in popular blogs like BoingBoing and Kottke.org, as well as in Lonely Planet, in print and online.

I mostly share links to my stories, but also post about books, summing up notable titles I’ve read in my Book Notes posts. Sometimes I delve into sports (mostly soccer) and put together HOWTO guides on gadgets, travel and more.
Here are some of my most popular posts.
Other stuff: I maintain a Starbucks Misspellings page to document baristas’ interpretations of my admittedly unusual name.

This blog contains my personal thoughts. My postings do not represent the views of my employers or any other groups. Also, a formatting note: Unless otherwise stated, bold font added to quoted material in my posts indicates my emphasis, not the author’s.

I welcome feedback via comments on individual posts and via email. I delete comments that I think don’t add anything constructive to the site.

Thanks for visiting.

This page was last updated in January, 2025.