A contributor to such titles as The Times, Shortlist, The Guardian and Uncut, Beaumont's writings have predominantly appeared in the NME where he has written numerous reviews and interviews since 1995 and has also functioned as the magazine's letters and singles page editor.
Considered by NME editor Conor McNicholas one of the title's "star" writers, Beaumont has frequently been assigned the task of reviewing latest releases and gigs from high-profile artists (Arctic Monkeys,[4] Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,[5] Coldplay[6]) and Muse.
In 2021, when reviewing Russian disaster film Chernobyl: Abyss, Beaumont described the United Kingdom as "a country that has overseen over 120,000 largely unnecessary deaths during a national crisis due to the incompetence, lies, contempt for its citizens and rampant cover-ups and cronyism of its extremist government".
In the same article he further describes the 2019 HBO Chernobyl miniseries as being "very handy at a time when it might be politically advantageous to conflate the nightmares of communism with the potentials of socialism".
In April 2007, Beaumont found himself at the centre of a media storm when NME magazine published his now-infamous interview with Keith Richards.