Damon Beres, Tech Journalist - Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Former Editor in Chief, Unfinished Media and OneZero at Medium

Damon Beres is a journalist whose work focuses on the effects of technology on people and the planet. He’s currently a Senior Editor at The Atlantic.

Previously, Beres was the inaugural Editor in Chief at Unfinished, where he wrote a flagship newsletter focused on digital culture and developed live events about emerging technologies. He co-founded and was Editor in Chief of the award-winning publication OneZero at Medium, which specialized in stories about the “undercurrents of the future”—smart, forward-looking stuff about social networks, artificial intelligence, surveillance, and labor. He worked with a wonderful team of journalists on every aspect of the brand’s editorial operations, including audience growth, content strategy, and stories like OneZero’s investigations into Banjo and Acellus, its feature on the homeless community near Apple’s $5 billion campus, and Cory Doctorow’s book How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. In 2020, he oversaw the launch of the spinoff brands Debugger and Future Human. You can read more about his work at Medium by visiting this recap page.

Prior to Medium, Beres was an Executive Editor leading tech and science coverage at Mashable. He worked with content across platforms and directed Mashable's industry-leading Snapchat Discover story, a goofy-but-sharp digital magazine read by millions of people around the world. (It was cited by Digiday when Mashable won the agency's "Most Innovative Publisher" award in 2017.)

And before that, Beres was Senior Tech Editor at HuffPost, where he anchored influential coverage on Apple, the electronic waste crisis, and more. He first started covering technology as an editor at Reader’s Digest magazine.

Beres’ writing has been published in the Atlantic, the New York Times, Wired, Vice, Slate, and other outlets.

A Brief Selection of Published Work:

For The New York Times:
Your Smartphone Should Be Built to Last

For Wired:
Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM. In 3 Years, They'll Have to Do It Again

For Vice (Motherboard):
How a Hacking Group Did Apple Repair Professionals an Accidental Favor

For Future Human:
In 2020, Human-Made Objects Tipped the Earth Out of Balance

For OneZero:
“We need fewer things that do everything.” | The Apple Card Explains Everything You Need to Know About Apple Today | Facebook Is a Problem. The System It Feeds Is a Bigger One.

Other Media:

Beres has moderated panels, like this discussion on tech and the future of democracy held in Davos during the World Economic Forum, this one about ethical A.I. held at Unfinished Live, and this conversation with Cory Doctorow; appeared on Cheddar many times (sample); and was a frequent guest on MSNBC's "Code Forward" (sample.) As a tech and media expert, he’s been quoted by the Wirecutter, the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and others. He's also done radio (NPR) and podcasts (Tech News Weekly, Here to Make Friends, Real Simple: Adulthood Made Easy).

You can visit his LinkedIn page for more information, or contact for a full resume.

Portrait by Vlad Borimsky.

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