Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist who has covered cultural news, events, and touchstones relating to science and technology, and is additionally a writer, broadly, of fiction and other genres. She received a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1997 published White Trash: Race and Class in America (Routledge, 1997), a widely cited book. From 2004–2005 she was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.