1499 The last decade has not been kind to most retailers, but dollar stores have thrived (see WILTW Oct. 5, 2017). Since 2011, two dominant discount chains… more
Damaris became associated with 13D in 2015, after more than 12 years working in media and investigative journalism.
Her coverage focuses on the internet, digital trends and culture, and the ethics of new technologies. She writes extensively about how Facebook is changing societies and the disruption of traditional media. Her analysis of the backlash against Big Tech and the rise of authoritarianism has been ahead of much of the news cycle. Corporate consolidation, millennials in politics, and labor movements in the U.S. are other trends she studies closely.
As a journalist, Damaris covered the challenges facing her industry. Her investigations, published by Columbia Journalism Review, ranged from deep-dives on major news outlets to exposes of internet trolls and their networks. After receiving the San Paolo Fellowship from Columbia Journalism School, she worked in Italy as a reporter for La Stampa, one of the country's major newspapers, covering politics and culture.
Damaris graduated from Brown University in 2003 with a B.A. in Comparative Literature. In 2013, she earned a Masters in Arts from Columbia Journalism School. She is a recipient of The Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
1499 Cracks are emerging across the tourism industry, revealing just how fragile the global economy is. Only 42% of Americans said they’d be taking a summ… more
1499 Between 1980 and 2013, the number of extreme weather events around the world increased by more than 250%. It’s a phenomenon we’ve been tracking since… more
1499 In the European elections in May, an outsider party swept to the top of the polls, and contrary to speculation, it was not the far-right populists. In… more
1499 After fifty years of decline, organized labor activity in the U.S. is on the upswing. New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show more tha… more
1499 Unprecedented debt loads, wage stagnation, and the lingering scars of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) have hit millennials hard. Layer in the opioid… more
1499 For multinational corporations that have no real national identity and are largely motivated by profits and shareholder interests, the backlash is alr… more
1499 Forty years after Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan initiated the privatization revolution, nationalization is back in the political mainstream. Jer… more
1499 The South and the West are rising. Sometime in 2018, the population of the Southern U.S. (124.75 million) surpassed that of the Midwest and Northeast… more
1499 Student-loan delinquencies soared last year, hitting back-to-back records of $166.3 billion in the third quarter and $166.4 billion in the fourth. Out… more
