Brief CV
I’ve been a freelance technology and science writer since 2015 (Forbes, Wired, the Sun, TechCrunch, Computer Weekly, Daily Dot, the Verge, Cointelegraph, VentureBeat), a freelance music writer since 2013 (Tiny Mix Tapes, Bandcamp Daily, PopMatters, The 405), and a freelance literary critic since 2015 (Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Full Stop, Fiction Advocate). I’ve also been writing about politics and current affairs since 2015 (the New Internationalist, AlterNet, Truthout, the Morning News).
As for full-time experience, I was the News Editor at Choose.co.uk from August 15, 2016 to December 30, 2017. I was an Editorial Assistant at the open-access publisher Frontiers, from January 3, 2014 to August 31, 2015.
Simon Chandler Portfolio
At Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/simonchandler
At Il Giornale/InsideOver: https://www.insideover.com/author/simon-chandler
At The Sun: https://thesun.co.uk/author/simon-chandler
At CCN: https://www.ccn.com/author/simon-chandler/
At Digital Trends: https://www.digitaltrends.com/users/simon-chandler/
At Cointelegraph: https://cointelegraph.com/authors/simon-chandler
At CryptoNews: https://cryptonews.com/editors/simon-chandler/
At Lifewire: https://www.lifewire.com/simon-chandler-4160695
At MakeUseOf: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/author/simonchandler/
At Bandcamp Daily: https://daily.bandcamp.com/?s=simon+chandler
At Tiny Mix Tapes: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/writer/simon+chandler
At PopMatters: http://www.popmatters.com/archive/contributor/1137/
At The 405: http://www.thefourohfive.com/by/simon-chandler
At Kenyon Review: http://www.kenyonreview.org/writer/simon-chandler/
At Electric Literature: http://electricliterature.com/author/simon-chandler/
At Left Foot Forward: http://leftfootforward.org/author/simon-chandler/
Articles (not published on the sites above)
U.S. Housing Market Is Heating Up – And That’s Kind of Depressing, CCN.com, June 30th, 2020
Report Says U.S. Shale Industry May Collapse, But Oil Price Is Rising, CCN.com, June 10th, 2020
Housing Market Indicators Suggest Recession Could Pump House Prices, CCN.com, May 25th, 2020
Coronavirus ‘Patient Zero’ May Have Started Pandemic In November or Earlier, CCN.com, March 16th, 2020
Eight Artists Fusing Traditional Arabic Music With Jazz, Bandcamp Daily, January 29th, 2020
A Global Recessions Is Coming If China Fails to Kill Coronavirus, CCN.com, January 27th, 2020
Scientists say ‘invisible aliens’ live among us. Revolutionary discovery or proof that too many useless academics live among us?, RT.com, January 12th, 2020
Rise in flat-Earthers should be roundly celebrated as good for science & society, RT.com, November 17th, 2020
Professional sport is a platform for celebrating inequality, RT.com, October 25th, 2019
Air travel is horrible & it’s a miracle more passengers don’t go on rampages, RT.com, October 18th, 2019
Western Militaries Are Using Virtual Reality for Propaganda and Recruitment, Truthout, August 23rd, 2019
Artificial Intelligence is a marketer’s dream–will it hurt consumer choice?, Daily Dot, August 6th, 2019
Tech’s dangerous race to control our emotions, Daily Dot, June 9th, 2019
Artificial intelligence and the death of decision-making, Daily Dot, May 2nd, 2019
Virtual reality and the future of work, Daily Dot, April 11th, 2019
Blockchain is making it possible for anyone to buy shares in Apple and Facebook, VentureBeat, March 9th, 2019
We’re giving away more personal data than ever, despite growing risks, VentureBeat, February 24th, 2019
Outsourcing Police Investigations to Google Risks Privacy and Justice, Truthout, January 22nd, 2019
Facebook is helping husbands ‘brainwash’ their wives with targeted ads, Daily Dot, January 22nd, 2019
Hands On: Sirin Labs Finney Review, TechRadar, January 16th, 2019
Virtual Reality’s Latest Use? Diagnosing Mental Illness, Wired, January 15th, 2019
The evolution of evil AI chatbots is just around the corner, Daily Dot, December 26th, 2018
The Vote Of No Confidence In Theresa May Is A Last-Gasp Attempt By Hardliners to Avoid A Soft Brexit, HuffPost, December 12th, 2018
Deepfakes 2.0: The terrifying future of AI and fake news, Daily Dot, October 5th, 2018
Enterprise accessibility: How Cray is using HPC to open up AI use cases from the datacentre, ComputerWeekly, April 27th, 2018
Americans still prefer sex to social media, Daily Dot, March 13th, 2018
How the Moonlite Project will use green energy to power bitcoin-mining datacentres, ComputerWeekly, March 1st, 2018
How charities are harnessing the power of VR, Daily Dot, January 22nd, 2018
This week’s Bitcoin crash was all about fraud and regulation, The Verge, January 18th, 2018
It’s not robots we should fear, it’s their creators, VentureBeat, November 8th, 2017
Google and Facebook’s New Love for Pay Walls Will Make Online Publishing Less Open, AlterNet, October 31st, 2017
Ofcom’s attempts to justify Openreach dominance will only hasten network’s decline, Real Business, September 25th, 2017
When VR Training Makes the Job Look Better than It Is, Wired, September 14th, 2017
The AI Chatbot Will Hire You Now, Wired, September 13th, 2017
Facebook’s Watch will turn your friends into a TV focus group, Daily Dot, August 15th, 2017
Silicon Valley Can’t Fight All Our Political Battles for Us, Truthout, June 8th, 2017
Why Theresa May’s approach to social mobility is incoherent, New Internationalist, June 5th, 2017
If advertisers want to avoid ad-blockers, they’ll have to give us more power over our personal data, LSE Media Policy Project Blog, April 20, 2017 (ghost written for Choose.co.uk MD)
Lloyds’ ‘micro branches’ will only deepen the damage caused by branch closures, MoveYourMoney, April 7, 2017
£200 million fund can speed up demand for speedy FTTP broadband, Computer Weekly, March 31 2017 (ghost written for Choose.co.uk MD)
Big data can’t bring objectivity to a subjective world, TechCrunch, November 18, 2016
The Era of Post-Truth Politics Is the Failure to Adapt to the Digital Age, Truthout, November 2, 2016
After a Three-Year Hiatus, Blank Banshee Breaks His Silence with “MEGA”, Bandcamp Daily, October 17, 2016
Escaping Reality: the Iconography of Vaporwave, Bandcamp Daily, September 16, 2016
Music of the Spectacle: Alienation, Irony and the Politics of Vaporwave, Bandcamp Daily, August 23, 2016
The Kids Aren’t Healthier, They’re Just Unhealthier in New Ways, Nerve, July 21, 2016
Donald Trump and the Dangers of Confusing the Ability to Offend with the Ability to Govern, Truthout, July 7, 2016
Vectors of Vektroid and Vaporwave, Bandcamp Daily, June 21, 2016
Chatbots are the future of advertising, The Daily Dot, June 6, 2016
Technological innovation is often simply an innovation in how we think about technology, TechCrunch, May 29, 2016
Here’s Why Bitcoin-Inspired Tech Isn’t Taking Over the World Anytime Soon, The Daily Dot, May 4, 2016
The Future of TV Isn’t Netflix and Amazon — It’s Facebook and Twitter, The Daily Dot, April 14, 2016
Why Are So Many Reality TV Stars Committing Suicide?, Global Comment, March 24, 2016
How Social Media Policing and Online Vigilantism May Increase Wrongful Convictions, Truthout, March 6, 2016
Why Starbucks Will Win Over Italy: It Doesn’t Really Sell Coffee, Wired, March 4, 2016
Ten Signs You Have No Idea About Relationships, Alternet, March 3, 2016
If I May Use Some of It, Full Stop, February 23, 2016
Ten Shocking Lies the US Government Made Us Believe, Crime Viral, February 20, 2016
Alienated, The Morning News, November 16, 2015
The More Robots We Bring into Society, the More We’re Forced to Behave Like Them, Alternet, November 9, 2015
No Celebrities Allowed: Actor Bands and the Reminder that All Bands Are Actors, Ad Hoc, July 23, 2014
