Hello!
I’m Graham Starr, a journalist, technologist, and website based in New York. Most recently, I was global business editor at Bloomberg News, working across the Americas companies news desk.
I’ve spent most of my career building teams of reporters and editors to tell stories about business, health care, and technology in new and creative ways for audiences of millions. As an editor, I’ve led teams to break news on and investigate some of the world’s most powerful companies. (Got a tip? Send me an email using a nonwork device. Use PGP for extra security. Here is my PGP public key.)
Before Bloomberg, I was senior editor at Business Insider, where I led a 10-person reporting team investigating Big Tech. We reported on misconduct in the upper ranks of Google, “dark patterns” in Amazon Prime subscription signups (which led to an FTC lawsuit against the company), staggering injury rates at Amazon warehouses (winner of the 2022 SABEW Award for explanatory reporting), and secret surveillance contracts. Our work has been cited by regulators, won international reporting contests, and forced changes inside companies.
Earlier in my career, I was a senior staff editor at The New York Times, working mostly on breaking news, business news, and special reports, and was a founding editor of “Happening Now,” an experiment in real-time visual news that’s now part of The Times’ app and homepage. Before that, I was an editor at New York Magazine. I started my career on the editorial staffs at WIRED and The Atlantic, where I worked on National Magazine Award-winning projects and cover stories.
I’ve reported about business, media, and technology for Bloomberg, TheWrap, The New York Times, Wired, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, and Slate, and my projects and artworks have been featured in the Washington Post, Fortune, NPR, and HuffPost, among others. I’ve also led workshops on media, art, and technology at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and lectured on journalism and writing for NYU’s and CUNY’s graduate programs. (Want me to speak to your class? Send me an email!)
More of my résumé can be seen by looking at my résumé. I’m also on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Bluesky.