Niraj most recently edited and wrote for the technology section of TheAtlantic.com. He is an experienced website designer and former beat reporter. (Also, please note that this site is under construction so things may suddenly change.)
Gaming Like it's 1999
A niche community of developers and gamers are embracing the styles of bygone eras by remaking old favorites and "demaking" new ones.
What Kagan Would Mean for Tech
Bloggers are looking at past decisions to divine how Kagan might rule on key tech issues.
Neetzan Zimmerman: What I Read
Documenting the reading habits of a man who makes his living blogging about Internet ephemera from cat photos to baby videos to video game tributes to the latest in memes and geek culture.
The Day Heller Died
A retracing of the events leading up to the closing of one of San Francisco's oldest, most respected law firms. The firm, Heller Ehrman, had offices around the world and was ranked the second best law firm in the country in 2004.
Heller Dissolves Friday
This was my blog post breaking the news of Heller's demise. The post was put up within minutes of the internal announcement, thanks to a source who relayed what was happening in real time via instant messenger.
Language Of The Future Sounds Like Chinese
A 2007 feature on how China's global rise has fueled interest in teaching Chinese language and culture to students from nursery school to college.
Taking Truants Off The Street
A 2007 feature on a pilot program run by police in Hartford, Conn. to keep kids in schools.
I designed most of the front-end for the Almanac of American Politics, a biennial guide to elected officials, districts and states. The Almanac is owned by the weekly political magazine National Journal, which is in turn owned by the Atlantic Media Company. (Fall, 2009.)
I created this website for Mary, a documentary filmmaker. Mary needed a website for "Matias," a PBS Frontline/World documentary she and a colleague created. The film chronicles the death of a migrant worker. (Summer, 2008.)
"Chicken" John Rinaldi, a jack-of-all-trades arist (writer, performer, former San Francisco mayoral candidate) needed an updated personal website. This design was based largely on a previous iteration of his personal site. (Spring, 2009.)
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Niraj was most recently a staff editor with TheAtlantic.com, where he wrote about technology. His duties included writing posts, editing contributors' posts, developing multimedia features and creating and managing the section's Twitter account. His writing on the business, policy, and culture of science and technology ranged from news analysis to original reporting (such as his piece outlining why an oil drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico could actually increase the risk of global oil spills). A complete list of his posts can be found here. He began working at TheAtlantic.com as an editorial assistant to Michael Kinsley, the editor of a new business site The Atlantic had planned to launch, but has since abandoned.
Prior to joining the Atlantic Media Company, Niraj was a business reporter with The Recorder, a San Francisco-based daily legal newspaper. He covered the California operations of the world's largest law firms and documented the collapse of two global firms, breaking the news of one firm's fate minutes into the still-ongoing internal announcement. His reporting there ranged from covering day-to-day business developments and significant personnel changes to writing lengthier features.
Niraj most recently edited and wrote for the technology section of TheAtlantic.com. He is an experienced website designer and former beat reporter. (Also, please note that this site is under construction so things may suddenly change.)
