1499 More than 80% of the plastic found in the ocean comes from unmanaged waste on land. The financial toll is rising: according to new estimates, marine-p… 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 The obsession with getting a deal is changing how young Americans shop and their concept of brand-loyalty. Consider the fact that seven out of ten mil… more
1499 In the fall of 2018, the Break Free From Plastic movement combed through nearly 200,000 pieces of plastic trash collected on the shores of 42 countrie… more
1499 We have called Japan the “laboratory of the world” for over two decades. Japan was the first country to experience a baby-bust, peak population and pe… more
1499 Following the implosion of WeWork, short-termism appears headed for a reckoning where the negative long-term consequences are coming faster and more p… more
1499 The original dream of a borderless, global internet is probably dead. Governments now have two options: assert their technological sovereignty, or do… more
“This is a huge downturn in the nation’s population growth. Even greater than the Great Depression.”
1499 The above quote came from William Frey, a noted demographer with the Brookings institution, after he saw the latest Census estimates. The U.S. populat… more
1499 Desperate for eyeballs and scale, consolidation has been a defining trend of the newspaper industry for well over a decade (see WILTW October 6, 2016)… more
1499 Death has fundamentally altered the U.S. and British electorates since 2016, raising some critical questions: what happens as a party’s base dies off?… more
1499 Are the outlines of a “leaderless” government beginning to take shape, and will it be a template for the rest of the world? This is just one of the qu… more
