The Atlantic hires Beres as senior editor for tech coverage

Damon Beres

The Atlantic has hired Damon Beres to be a senior editor focused on technology coverage.

Beres has been editor-in-chief of Unfinished Media, a new brand focused on tech and society. Previously, Beres was co-founder and editor-in-chief of Medium’s OneZero.

The team’s work has been cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Verge, Politico, Vice, Fox Business, the Guardian, Vox, and CNBC.

Prior to that, Beres was with Mashable where he served as director of editorial programming and then as executive editor. During his time, Mashable won the agency’s “Most Innovative Publisher” award.

He was also senior tech editor at The Huffington Post. He served as an associate editor at Reader’s Digest and was a web writer at NY1 News.

Beres holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and sociology from New York University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.