Beres, editor in chief of OneZero, accepts Medium’s buyout offer

Damon Beres

Damon Beres, the editor on chief of technology publication OneZero, has accepted parent company Medium’s buyout offer.

His last day will be April 7.

“Running OneZero has been the greatest joy and privilege of my professional life,” he wrote on Twitter. “But it’s time to move on, as the company follows a new path forward.”

OneZero’s editorial team includes the namesake publication, Debugger, and Future Human. Beres commissions, edits, and writes stories about the companies, products, and unseen forces shaping our future.

Previously, Beres was an executive editor at Mashable. He worked with content across platforms and directed Mashable’s industry-leading Snapchat Discover story, which was read by millions of people around the world and cited by Digiday when Mashable won the agency’s “Most Innovative Publisher” award.

Prior to Mashable, 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 for Reader’s Digest magazine.

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.