Alex Kantrowitz is a Senior Technology Reporter for BuzzFeed covering social and communications. He lives in San Francisco.

Kantrowitz is a graduate of Cornell University, Class of 2009, with a degree in Industrial and Labor Relations. At Cornell, Kantrowitz was a columnist for The Cornell Daily Sun, the daily student newspaper. Kantrowitz also worked for the student radio station, WVBR, where he produced and co-hosted WVBR's 2008 Super Tuesday election special which included special guests: Carly Fiorina, Don Cheadle, Ed Norton, Congressman Maurice Hinchey and others.

He spent 3 semesters abroad, split between Jerusalem's Shaarei Mevaseret and Istanbul's Boğaziçi University.

Kantrowitz joined BuzzFeed in 2013. He was previously a Staff Reporter at Ad Age.