Jared Keller
Former Managing Editor
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.
Highlights
When he’s not spearheading Task & Purpose’s gear review coverage, Jared covers military technology with an emphasis on the old and the weird.
Experience
Prior to joining Task & Purpose, Jared has worked as the social media editor for The Atlantic, the director of social media for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek, a digital editor at Al Jazeera America, the digital director at Maxim magazine, and a contributing editor at Pacific Standard.
Education
Jared graduated from Wesleyan University in 2009 with a degree in the College of Social Studies, an interdisciplinary program focused on social theory, economics, and politics.
Notable Work
- The inside story behind the Pentagon’s ill-fated quest for a real-life ‘Iron Man’ suit Task & Purpose
- James Mattis’s bizarre cult of 'lethality; The New Republic
- Disney threatens to ruin the things that made Marvel Comics special The Washington Post
- Rescuing the lost art of 9/11 The Daily Beast
- Insider America's Auschwitz Smithsonian
- Bo Dietl's done Fox News and Mar-a-Lago. Now he wants to be mayor of New York The Village Voice
- The multiverse is a flat circle Los Angeles Review of Books
- The cow tipping point Pacific Standard