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Aaron Mok

Queens

Summary

Journalist with over 5 years of experience shaping coverage at the intersection of AI, labor, and the workplace. Skilled at pitching and ideating original story concepts, identifying underreported angles, and ensuring coverage reflects diverse voices. Proven record of high-impact stories that center on workers in the age of AI.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Newsletter Writer & Strategist

OPAQUE
04.2025 - Current
  • Shape the editorial direction for AI Confidential, a bi-weekly newsletter now reaching over 17,000 subscribers.
  • Pitch, draft, and curate coverage on AI adoption, data security, and workforce implications, highlighting underreported privacy issues in enterprise AI.
  • Grew readership by 30% in three months through strategic coverage planning, editorial consistency, and community engagement.

AI Labor Supply Chain Researcher

TechEquity
02.2025 - 07.2025
  • Directed a multi-month investigation into Scale AI's labor practices, combining corporate filings, political connections, and worker interviews into a comprehensive profile.
  • Conducted outreach and interviews with more than a dozen contractors, ensuring worker experiences anchored findings about global data-labeling conditions.
  • Produced reporting that linked corporate strategy, political lobbying, and workforce realities, shaping advocacy campaigns for AI data workers.

Contributing Writer

IEEE Spectrum
01.2025 - Current
  • Pitch and develop news, features, and Q&As on how emerging technologies shape career opportunities and workforce trends for over 400,000 readers.
  • Report on undercovered issues, including the data center skills gap, surging enrollment in semiconductor coursework, and the rise of organoid intelligence.
  • Build and maintain source relationships with researchers, engineers, and staffing leaders to surface story ideas that influence editorial direction.

AI Contributor

Observer
07.2024 - Current
  • Pitch and shape stories on AI that profile founders and examine AI's impact on labor markets and workplace dynamics.
  • Partnered with editors to develop Observer's Top 50 AI Power Players lists, contributing ideas that guided coverage criteria and editorial scope.
  • Delivered exclusive interviews with executives at AWS, Revel, and other leading firms, spotlighting the human and social impact of emerging tech.

AI Reporter

Business Insider
07.2022 - 07.2024
  • Filed 1-3 news stories on the people, companies, and money fueling AI under tight deadlines, generating up to 8 million page views a month.
  • Spearheaded daily coverage of AI's impact on the workforce by analyzing emerging research, industry data, and insights from executives, experts, and workers.
  • Delivered scoops on worker conditions, including the hidden AI contractor workforce behind OpenAI's ChatGPT, and how Googlers' discovered layoffs when they were locked out of offices.
  • Collaborated with editors across business and tech desks to ensure workforce-focused AI reporting aligned with broader newsroom priorities.

Freelance Journalist

Aaron Mok Writes LLC
New York
01.2020 - Current
  • Published stories in The Guardian, BI, Sherwood, Civil Eats, and Technical.ly.
  • Reported a 1,200-word feature for The Guardian on AI adoption among kids.
  • Produced four features for Business Insider's 'How AI Is Changing Everything' series, profiling AI trailblazers and workplace impacts.
  • Investigated the hidden toll of Irritable Bowel Syndrome on workers in Sherwood News and reported on labor conditions in agriculture for Civil Eats.

Education

M.S. - Journalism

Columbia University
New York, NY
05-2022

Bachelor of Arts - Environmental Studies And Economics

Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY
05-2019

Skills

  • Breaking news
  • Feature writing
  • Story ideation
  • AI technologies
  • Editorial planning
  • Interview techniques
  • Critical thinking
  • Storytelling
  • Data interpretation
  • Deadline oriented
  • Strong research skills
  • Subject matter expertise
  • Fact-checking proficiency
  • Coverage planning
  • Newsletter strategy
  • Cross-desk collaboration
  • Source development
  • PACER
  • Worker-centered reporting

Affiliations

Stories cited by McKinsey, FTC, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Featured on CBS Mornings, NPR Marketplace, and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Accomplishments

Ohio University's Kiplinger Fellow (2025): One of 28 journalists selected from more than 450 applicants for one-week professional development fellowship focused on artificial intelligence in journalism.

Austrian-American Media Fellow (2024): One of 10 US journalists selected to visit Vienna to discuss and report on foreign policy priorities and international relations through the lens of Austrian innovation and diplomacy.

Timeline

Newsletter Writer & Strategist

OPAQUE
04.2025 - Current

AI Labor Supply Chain Researcher

TechEquity
02.2025 - 07.2025

Contributing Writer

IEEE Spectrum
01.2025 - Current

AI Contributor

Observer
07.2024 - Current

AI Reporter

Business Insider
07.2022 - 07.2024

Freelance Journalist

Aaron Mok Writes LLC
01.2020 - Current

M.S. - Journalism

Columbia University

Bachelor of Arts - Environmental Studies And Economics

Binghamton University

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