Jose Antonio Vargas is an award-winning multimedia journalist.

He's a senior contributing editor at the Huffington Post, where he launched the Technology and College sections. Previously, he covered tech and video game culture, HIV/AIDS, and the 2008 presidential campaign for the Washington Post, and won a Pulitzer Prize as a part of the team that covered the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech. His 2006 series on HIV/AIDS in Washington, D.C. inspired a feature-length documentary -- The Other City -- which he wrote and co-produced. It world premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

News media's evolution, and the breakdown of barriers between print and broadcast journalism, has guided his 12-year reporting career. He's written for daily newspapers (Philadelphia Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle) and national magazines (New York, Rolling Stone) and has appeared on CNN, ABC News and PBS NewsHour. On HuffPost, he writes the blog Technology as Anthropology, which focuses on tech's impact on people and how we behave.

He taught a class on "Storytelling 2.0" at Georgetown University and serves on the advisory board for the Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism, housed at American University. A very proud alumnus of Mountain View High School ('00) and San Francisco State University ('04), he loves jazz, can't get enough of Ben & Jerry's and worships at the altars of Altman, Almodovar, Didion, Baldwin and Orwell.

He lives in New York City. Find him on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. E-mail him at