Rest of World names Labor x Tech editor

Gayathri Vaidyanathan has started as Rest of World’s labor x tech editor.

The Labor x Tech reporting initiative explores how tech is transforming work — and the lives of workers in the process.

Vaidyanathan’s work has appeared in Nature, Discover Magazine, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Vaidyanathan, who has reported from countries including India, Liberia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia, has won multiple international awards for feature writing and journalism fellowships.

At Rest of World, Vaidyanathan will direct the work of a dozen international journalists as part of the Labor x Tech Contributor Network, a year-long project with underwriting from the Ford Foundation.

Reporters in the network will deliver broad coverage from Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America surrounding work, workers and how technology — and the decisions made by tech companies and executives — influences their lives.

She is based in Stuttgart, Germany.