David Rohde, executive editor of The New Yorker’s digital site Yorker.com, will leave to join NBC News as senior executive editor of national security.
Rohde will begin in May. As per NBC News:
“David will oversee the national security team, direct editorial, and collaborate closely with correspondents, producers, and reporters around NBC News to further expand our commitment to this ambitious and critically important area of coverage.
“He will also get out in the country to write and report from time to time, focusing his trained eye on domestic threats, including to democracy, disinformation and extremism, and the economic challenges Americans face during these momentous times.”
Rohde joined The New Yorker in May 2017 as an online news director.
Before that he worked at Reuters as a foreign affairs columnist, investigative reporter and national security investigations editor. He served as a metropolitan news reporter, foreign correspondent, South Asia bureau co-chief and investigative reporter at The New York Times.
He was also an Eastern Europe correspondent at the Christian Science Monitor.
A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Rohde graduated from Brown University.
You can congratulate Rohde on Twitter.
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