McMurry to join The Atlantic as senior editor

The Atlantic has hired Evan McMurry as a senior editor to lead audience strategy and oversee the magazine’s audience team. He begins later this month.

As per The Atlantic:

“McMurry will guide The Atlantic’s audience and social strategy under the leadership of managing editor Bhumika Tharoor, working to bring The Atlantic’s journalism to the largest possible audience across all existing and future platforms. McMurry will coordinate closely with Dan Fallon, the director of insights, and Shan Wang, the director of programming, on the indispensable work of leading daily audience coverage; understanding and deepening The Atlantic’s relationships with its tens of millions of readers and listeners; and expanding social presence to continually grow audiences and subscribers to The Atlantic.”

McMurry will join from ABC News, where he has worked for more than seven years, recently as senior manager of social media. He joined ABC News as a political social media editor, then served as a social media editor and then as a senior social media editor.

He was a political editor at Mediaite, Abrams Media. He also interned at and contributed to the Texas Monthly.

McMurry has a B.A. from Reed College in Portland, Ore. and a M.F.A. from Texas State University.

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