Yasmin Tayag will be a part of The Atlantic’s editorial staff this month, when she’s going to develop into a workers author. Over the previous 12 months, in her work as a freelancer, Yasmin has contributed extensively to The Atlantic, together with quite a few pandemic-related items the place she reported on the consequences of Americans’ low booster numbers, how we can’t give up hygiene theater, and whether or not we ought to be masking once more. Yasmin beforehand labored at Medium, the place she launched the publication Future Human and edited the Coronavirus Blog. Prior to Medium, Yasmin edited science protection at Inverse.
Damon Beres additionally lately joined The Atlantic’s editorial workers, as a senior editor centered on know-how protection. Damon was beforehand at Unfinished, the place he was the editor in chief. Prior to that, he was the editor in chief of the publication OneZero at Medium, which specialised in tales about social networks, synthetic intelligence, surveillance, labor, and moral approaches to know-how. Damon additional launched the spinoff publications Debugger and, with Yasmin, Future Human, and printed Cory Doctorow’s guide How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. Damon has written for The Atlantic on how the iPhone’s ubiquity has made the machine much less cool; he has additionally lined the deliberate obsolescence of smartphones and e-book accessibility.
The Atlantic has introduced and welcomed quite a few new editorial hires this 12 months, together with Jerusalem Demsas as workers author, coming from Vox; Elaina Plott and Mark Leibovich as workers writers, each coming from The New York Times; Laura Bennett as a senior editor specializing in the options, coming from Slate; and Gal Beckerman as a senior editor overseeing our Books growth, additionally previously of The New York Times.
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