Nellie Bowles

I'm a writer for The Free Press, a new media company my wife and I started out of our house. I write a weekly column called TGIF.

Before becoming a media mogul, I was a correspondent at The New York Times. There, as part of a team, I won the The Gerald Loeb Award in Investigations and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award for my reporting on predators using video games to groom children. I started my career at The San Francisco Chronicle, a great paper.

Some of my favorite stories: Puertopia; CHAZ/CHOP; a brothel in Pahrump, NV; a dopamine fast and a raw water party a rural Washington survival school.

Before becoming a reporter, I worked on epigenetics research at UCSF studying stress and as a fellow with a neuroscience laboratory at McGill studying hypnosis. I was the 2011-2012 Fulbright Fellow to Swaziland. 

I'm always looking for stories. Email me: nellie@thefp.com