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Mack DeGeurin

Brooklyn,NY

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Tech Policy Reporter

Gizmodo
11.2021 - 11.2023
  • Gained and developed sources with knowledge on tech policy, artificial intelligence, AI ethics, and a range of areas where politics and policy meet.
  • Regularly advanced and broke news stories across a wide breadth of tech topics inducing cybersecurity, privacy, surveillance, tech legislation, military tech, and emerging technologies.
  • Worked with a team of academics to redact and release The Facebook Papers, the single largest trove of leaked Facebook documents, to the general public.
  • Joined the Department of Defense on a cross country reporting trip.

Analyst

Insider Intelligence
01.2021 - 11.2021
  • Wrote two to three stories per day for a daily newsletter covering emerging technologies, Big Tech companies, and market trends driving the tech industry.
  • Created data visualizations using internal forecasts and third party datasets.
  • Interviewed industry thought leaders, reviewed hardware, and developed expertise writing about AI, automation, VR/AR, and other tech topics.

Education Fellow

Business Insider
06.2019 - 12.2019
  • Wrote two to three high engagement stories per day and long-form features covering the US education system
  • Worked with and edited a diverse set of writers from across the country to create narrative-based visual features

Editorial Intern

New York Magazine
06.2018 - 12.2018
  • Wrote news-features and assisted in content production for Select All and Intelligencer, New York Magazine's technology and politics verticals
  • Additional obligations included fact-checking and transcribing interviews. Attended meetings and pitched stories regularly

Editorial Intern

VICE Motherboard
01.2018 - 05.2018
  • Wrote impactful stories focusing on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and the intersection of art and technology
  • Developed a strong list of digital rights and civil liberties sources, assisted in researching stories and learned to use encrypted communications to protect sources

News Editor

Washington Square News
09.2017 - 05.2018
  • Led content creation and production for the news desk of a weekly print newspaper and online daily that broke stories leading to major policy changes in a campus of over 20,000 students

Fact Checker

Public Books
04.2019 - Current
  • Regularly fact checks and copy edits reviews and essays from leading academics on a range of subjects, from labor and identity to politics and technology.


Skills

  • Fact-Checking
  • Proficiency with multiple CMSs
  • Advanced Research
  • Scannable newsletter writing
  • Microsoft Office, Google Suite
  • FOIA
  • Copy Editing
  • Encrypted Messaging
  • Basic Photo and Video Editing (Adobe Premiere)
  • Experience using Wordpress and SNO
  • Tableau Data Visualizer

Education

B.A. Double major in journalism and political science from New York University, class of 2018. Spent first year in Paris, France as part of NYU's Global Liberal Studies Program.

Timeline

Tech Policy Reporter

Gizmodo
11.2021 - 11.2023

Analyst

Insider Intelligence
01.2021 - 11.2021

Education Fellow

Business Insider
06.2019 - 12.2019

Fact Checker

Public Books
04.2019 - Current

Editorial Intern

New York Magazine
06.2018 - 12.2018

Editorial Intern

VICE Motherboard
01.2018 - 05.2018

News Editor

Washington Square News
09.2017 - 05.2018

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