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OneZero senior editor Merchant departs

Brian Merchant

Brian Merchant, a senior editor at Medium’s tech publication OneZeo, has taken the buyout offer and departed.

Merchant is author of a bestselling book about the iPhone, “The One Device.” He’s currently at work on a second book, about the first rebellion against automation—the deeply misunderstood Luddite uprisings of the early 1800s—and what might cause the next one.

Before OneZero, he ran a project called Automaton at Gizmodo, where he investigated and opined about automation, artificial intelligence, and the future of work.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Wired, the Atlantic, the LA Times, the Guardian, Slate, VICE Magazine, the Verge, Gizmodo, the Outline, Fast Company, Fortune, Paste, and elsewhere.

He was a writer and editor at Motherboard, Vice’s science and technology outlet, where he founded Terraform, its online fiction site.

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.

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