Benji Jones

Business Analyst

Brooklyn, New York, United States11 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Experienced environmental journalist with a strong ecological background.
Proven track record in breaking news on major energy companies.
Contributed to prestigious publications like National Geographic and Smithsonian.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled environmental journalist with expertise in biodiversity and climate change reporting.

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About

I’m an environmental journalist and former ecologist based in Brooklyn. I’m currently a reporter at Vox, where I write about biodiversity and climate change. You can see my work here: www.vox.com/authors/benji-jones. Before joining Vox, I was a senior business reporter at Business Insider covering the energy industry. I consistently broke news on several of the nation's largest energy companies including Exxon, Schlumberger, and Sunrun. My work appears in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Popular Science, and other outlets. I have a master's in ecology and evolution, and prior to journalism, I worked at the World Resources Institute as a researcher for the forest monitoring platform Global Forest Watch. You can learn more about me at www.benji-jones.com and reach me on Signal at benji.90. Email me at benji.jones@vox.com or at benjijones@protonmail.com.

Experience

Vox

4 roles

Senior correspondent

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Correspondent

Jun 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

Senior environmental reporter

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Environmental reporter

Mar 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

Business insider

3 roles

Senior Energy Reporter

Promoted

Jun 2020 – Mar 2021 · 9 mos

Energy Reporter

Dec 2019 – Jun 2020 · 6 mos

Video Producer, Science

Dec 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr

Freelance

Science Reporter

Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 · 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

Reported for outlets including New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and Quartz
Fact checked for Smithsonian Magazine

National audubon society

Reporting Fellow

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos · New York, New York

* Reported and fact-checked for Audubon (print and web), an award-winning environmental magazine

Stanford university

Researcher, The Dirzo Lab

Sep 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · The Dirzo Lab

Studied the impact of large-scale agriculture and other forms of land-use change on mammals in Nepal
Served as a TA in grad and college-level classes

World resources institute

Research Analyst, Global Forest Watch

Oct 2013 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Washington, DC

Helped launch Global Forest Watch, a web app for monitoring deforestation in near-real time.
Led initiatives to put forest monitoring data to use for biodiversity conservation.