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    • What I Do

      For years, tech journalism was my thing. Lately, I go wherever there's a good story. I've written about The Sopranos and sopranos, human longevity and startups that flame out... Animals make recurring appearances—boars, bees, black soldier flies and birds that had to be reprogrammed to fly south for the winter. My work has appeared in The Guardian's Long Read, The Atlantic, Fortune, The Boston Globe "Ideas," Slate, Wired, BusinessWeek, Inc., and tanti altri.

       

      There are documentary films and a podcast too. A documentary film we made about Congo’s child miners screened at more than 10 film festivals, and picked up awards along the way. Our latest film is on India's untouchables.

       

      UPDATE: In September, 2019, I joined Fortune as a senior writer/editor. You can check out my work here.

       

    • A selection of my work

      The Guardian's The Long Read

      A feature on the human voice

      Why women live longer than men — and how men will benefit from it

      The Boston Globe "Ideas"

      This one generated some buzz: the science behind genetically engineered honeybees

      A documentary film on Congo's child miners

      A documentary film on India's Untouchables

      The boars are back in town

      Wired UK: Climate change is coming for your Merlot

      Fortune: A Nobel laureate demystifies meme stocks, cryptos and other market frenzies

    • More bylines

      I’ve covered the dot-com boom, bust and tech re-birth on both sides of the Atlantic for the likes of Adweek, The Industry Standard, Reuters and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Later, I wrote for The Times of London, Guardian, Slate.com, Ad Age and Variety. My freelance journalism has also appeared in Fortune, Wired, The Atlantic, Time, Inc., New York Magazine and the Boston Globe. I also wrote a column on technology in contemporary art (in Italian) for ContemporArt.

       

      Here are some clips that have aged pretty well:

      This one blew up my Twitter:

      • Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice? Guardian, August 10, 2017

      From Emperor Nero to millennials to The Sopranos:

      • Millennials are the misfits of modern capitalism. Here's why it's not their fault, The Boston Globe, Nov 20, 2018
      • Teenagers are our best hope in fighting fake news, The Boston Globe, Jan 12, 2018
      • Invasion of the Punks, Fortune, December 15, 2016
      • Why This Shaving Startup Made a $100 Million Gamble on a 100-Year-Old Factory, Inc., May, 2016
      • Fast, cheap & Out of Control: the rise of Europe's budget airlines, Wired, March 2002
      • A geriatric attack on Italy’s bloggers, Times Online, Oct. 24, 2007
      • All roads lead to ‘Roman’ trials, Variety, August 13, 2006
      • Engine Wine, Wired, September, 2006
      • Venice Unwired, Wired, November, 2005
      • Disappearing Act, Time, May 9, 2005
      • Why the Sopranos flopped in Italy, The Guardian, July 23, 2007
      • Russian Roulette, The Guardian, Dec. 11, 2006

      On tech:

      • When Algorithms Make the Evidence Vanish The Atlantic, May 8, 2019
      • When Online Privacy Comes at the Press's Expense, The Atlantic, June 3, 2019
      • Keeping your social media policy in the workplace — and out of the courtroom, Inc., July 7, 2014
      • Toshiba has invented a quantum cryptography network that even the NSA can’t hack, Quartz, September 4, 2013
      • How to be unGoogleable, Times Online, May 28, 2008

      On the environment, science

      • Why women live longer than men – and how men will benefit from it – The Boston Globe, April 15, 2018
      • The Next Big Thing in the Food Industry: Flies – Inc., October, 2014
      • I’ll have the fly-fed beef, please, Bloomberg Businesweek, June 13, 2013
      • Survival of the unfittest, The Guardian, April 14, 2008

      Food & Wine:

      • On the Scent: Hunting for white truffles in Amandola, The Guardian, Nov. 10, 2008
      • The rise and rise of small wines, Wanted in Rome, Nov, 2007
      • How Eataly Conquered Italy, and Why America Will Be Next, Grub Street – NYmag.com, July, 2012
      • White Gold: A Look at the Italian Truffle Trade, Grub Street – NYmag.com, November, 2012

      Some politics, geeky politics:

      • The politics of piracy, Times Online, June 8, 2006
      • Pirates run aground at the polls, Times Online, Sept 20, 2006

      And waaaay, way back:

      • Banned from the Olympics, The Industry Standard, Aug 14, 2000

      To read my Businessweek column, “Very Near Future,” please visit.

      To read my Slate.com/TheBigMoney.com clips, please visit

      To read my Variety clips, please visit

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      bwarner@gmail.com
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