Trevor Butterworth is an Irish journalist and writer who has lived in the United States since 1993 and presently resides in Brooklyn.

He writes a weekly column for The Daily, called "The Information Society," which is about how we produce, consume, and abuse information in our so-called knowledge economy. He is a contributor to the Financial Times, for which he has profiled writers such as Tom Wolfe and the late Louis Auchincloss; and he is a regular book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal.

He wrote a weekly column for Forbes - "Medialand" - which covered all aspects of our mediated environment from style to technology, and has been published in Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and other publications on a wide variety of cultural and scientific topics; and he has appeared on NBC Nightly News, NPR and the BBC. He is editor-at-large at STATS.org, a non-partisan, non-profit project affiliated with George Mason University in Virginia that examines the way statistics and science are used in public policy and the media.

Lunch with David Remnick for the Financial Times

He received his BA and M.Phil from Trinity College Dublin, attended Georgetown University on a graduate scholarship, and received an MS from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he also received the school's Sevellon Brown Award for outstanding knowledge of the history of American press.

Meeting President Obama before the 2009 RTCA dinner