Cecilia D'anastasio

About

Cecilia D'Anastasio reports on video games and digital culture for Bloomberg News. Previously, she worked for WIRED and Kotaku. She loves tips and can be contacted securely on Signal at Cecilia.01. Her Discord handle is ehvee. In 2025, Cecilia was named a Polk Award winner, awarded Northwestern's John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism and nominated for an ASME National Magazine Award for her reporting on child predation in Roblox. For her reporting on the influencer group FaZe Clan, she was named among the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards’ David Robb Investigative award winners. For her reporting on sexism in gaming, she won the Writers Guild award for digital news writing, the International Game Developers Association’s Positive Impact Award and the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism presented by the New York Videogame Critics Circle. She was named SXSW’s first Game Industry Journalist of the Year in 2020. In 2018, Cecilia was listed among Variety’s “Most Influential In Video Games.” She has been included among Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in media.