Zak Jason is a deputy features editor at Insider. He was previously a features editor and the research director at WIRED. He’s written for The New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, and many other places. He was raised in Virginia, Mississippi, and Massachusetts. He lives in New York with his wife and their daughter (see the avocado she smeared on his shirt pocket).
You can follow him on Twitter (@zakjason), and reach him at zak.e.jason@gmail.com.
WRITING
fun
On TV characters with no text history
features
215 Miles on the Camino de Santiago
editing
features
The Infinite Reach of Joel Kaplan (cover story)
Meet the Lobbyist Next Door (cover story)
Inside the Shadow Evacuation of Kabul
Is Russia’s Biggest Tech Company Too Big to Fail?
ideas
The Atlanta Shootings Made Me Stop Gaslighting Myself
On Gen X dogma in Silicon Valley
Scientists Need to Admit What They Got Wrong About Covid
other
Zak and his wife once made a WIRED podcast episode about their pandemic baby. He’s also had a few misguided forays as a man-on-the-street reporter.