Media Moves

Politico Magazine promotes three to deputy editor

Politico Magazine editor Elizabeth Ralph and executive editor Dafna Linzer sent out the following:

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Since it started in 2013, the magazine has been a central part of POLITICO’s identity — a home for impactful reporting, beautifully-spun narratives, and bold, original ideas at the center of politics, power, policy and culture. As the magazine seeks to expand our impact and double down on these areas, we are excited to announce some promotions:

Bill Duryea becomes Deputy Editor for Features, overseeing the magazine’s reported and narrative work. Since he came to POLITICO from The Tampa Bay Times in 2015, Bill has been among our most accomplished editors, assigning and editing stories that regularly top POLITICO’s most-read lists. His legendary partnership with Michael Kruse consistently produces excellent journalism, from Kruse’s consecutive wins in the National Headliner award for his Trump coverage to an intimate profile of Maggie Haberman. Bill, who currently oversees the magazine’s signature Friday Read pipeline, deeply enjoys working with writers over time to develop their best work, and is known throughout the newsroom as a supportive, collaborative colleague. In his new role, Bill will continue to edit stories while also guiding other magazine editors and helping Elizabeth build out the magazine’s features pipeline and strategy.

Maura Reynolds, currently on loan to the Politics team, will return to the magazine after the midterms in November as Deputy Editor for Ideas, overseeing the magazine’s ideas, analysis and opinion coverage. Conversant in an amazing array of topics and a versatile editor, Maura has excelled in several roles at POLITICO — as White House editor, as an editor on The Agenda, as the editor of POLITICO’s Recovery Lab (a series on the long-term impact of the pandemic) and as an editor on the magazine. Maura recently led the magazine’s incisive, original coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Maura spent six years in Moscow covering the former Soviet Union, including the rise of Putin, for the Associated Press and The Los Angeles Times and her own Q and A with Fiona Hill became one of POLTICO’s most-trafficked stories this year. In her new role, Maura will work with Elizabeth to rethink and reinvent how the magazine covers the biggest issues and debates of our time. Magazine senior editor Ben Weyl will use his deep knowledge of politics and policy to work with Maura in her new position and continue his leadership role representing the magazine in the newsroom.

Teresa Wiltz becomes Deputy Editor for Special Projects, overseeing reported series as well as the magazine’s feature newsletters, The Recast and Women Rule. Teresa, who came to POLITICO in 2020, after tenures at The Washington Post’s Style Section, The Chicago Tribune, Essence, The Root and Stateline, is a creative, stylish and highly entrepreneurial editor — someone capable of taking a big idea and turning it into a cutting-edge project. Look no further than the Next Great Migration, a beautiful, impactful series Teresa conceived of and developed, marshalling resources from across the newsroom to cover the exodus of Black Americans from major cities; or The Recast, an important lens on race and power, which Teresa created from scratch with several colleagues. Teresa will also continue to edit stories on a range of subjects and use her considerable network and mentoring skills to help recruit new writers and guide younger magazine staff. We expect to see Teresa’s byline from time to time too, as she is a lovely feature writer herself.

Bill, Maura and Teresa will all report to Elizabeth. Please congratulate them!

Elizabeth
Dafna

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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