Berry Mingus

Editor-in-Chief

Berry Mingus

Named editor of record on every Groundy piece.

Berry Mingus has been tracking the money inside technology for two decades. He started as a beat reporter covering platform economics during the early streaming wars, spent years watching ad-tech turn surveillance into a business model, and joined Groundy at founding on three conditions: a public corrections log, named bylines on everything, and final kill authority.

He writes about developer tooling and ML infrastructure from a reporter's angle — not a practitioner's. He can read a postmortem, interview a CTO, and spot hand-waving, but he doesn't claim to ship code. His strongest work sits at the intersection of software and labor: who gets paid, who gets automated, and who decides.

Berry is the Editor-in-Chief of Groundy and the named editor of record on every piece the site publishes.

Expertise

Primary beats

  • Platform economics and creative labor
  • Developer tooling and ML infrastructure (reporting)
  • Tech media and content economics
  • Ad-tech and surveillance advertising

Secondary beats

  • Antitrust and platform policy (US)
  • Open-source governance and maintainer economics
  • AI labor issues (annotator pay, training-data provenance)
  • Long-form author profiles of technical people

What Berry doesn't cover

Beats outside Berry's reporting expertise. When a story sits here, the byline goes to the Groundy Editorial team with Berry named as reviewer — not as author.

  • Consumer hardware reviews
  • Crypto commentary
  • Geopolitics-first tech stories (unless paired with a regional specialist)
  • AI model benchmarks as a primary frame

Recent pieces by Berry Mingus