Christopher Zara

Christopher Zara is the news director for Fast Company, where he oversees daily coverage of everything from Big Tech to small startups, company culture, innovation, design, retail, travel, finance, and any topic in the Fast Company universe. He has years of experience as an editor and a reporter who writes about business, technology, media, culture, theater, and sometimes the intersecting worlds of all five. His work spans an extensive range, whether it's an on-the-ground report about internet censorship in Myanmar, a rumination on Skittles advertising, or an unofficial history of Facebook’s like button.

Zara is especially passionate about chronicling the changing dynamics of work and its role in our society. His award-winning memoir, Uneducated (Little, Brown), tells a highly personal story about the education divide and his madcap attempts to navigate the white-collar world without a college degree.

Before coming to Fast Company in 2016, Zara was a media and tech editor for International Business Times, a theater critic for Newsweek, and managing editor of the performing arts newspaper Show Business Weekly. His first book, Tortured Artists—an irreverent exploration of the relationship between creativity and suffering—is available from Simon & Schuster. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Condé Nast Traveler, Vice News, and many other publications.

Zara lives in New York City and has nothing bad to say about the guy who just shoved him on the subway.