The Atlantic announces four editorial promotions

The Atlantic has named Sarah Yager deputy executive editor, managing the art and photography, copy, and fact-checking teams. Yager has held the post of a managing editor since 2019, overseeing editorial operations and standards across the newsroom.

John Swansburg has been promoted to the post of managing editor, focusing on the print magazine. He will be overseeing the making of the print magazine each month and managing the print team’s senior editors. Previously, Swansburg was a senior editor.

Before the Atlantic, Swansburg spent more than 10 years at Slate Magazine where he held numerous roles, including editorial director, culture editor and deputy editor. He has also served as a deputy editor, Ideas, at The Boston Globe. He was also senior editor at Legal Affairs and has also worked as an editorial assistant at The New York Times.

Swansburg is a graduate of Yale University.

Bhumika Tharoor has been promoted to managing editor, leading strategy, subscriber growth, and audience habit. Previously, she was senior editor, Strategy, having joined the company as a deputy director, Talent Lab.

Previously, she has also worked at CNN, The Washington Post, TMG and Randstad USA. Tharoor holds a Bachelor’s degree in international studies and Spanish from Virginia Commonwealth University and is an MBA from Georgetown University McDonough School of Business.

Adrienne LaFrance has expanded her executive editor role and now oversees all of editorial. She has been with The Atlantic for the past 7 years, having joined as a senior associate editor. She then became senior editor, then worked as a staff writer and has also served as editor of TheAtlantic.com.

She has also worked as a freelance investigative reporter with a focus on technology, information systems, media, science, internet culture, politics and such, with her bylines appearing in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Gawker, Quartz, The Awl, Slate, Fast Company, Honolulu Civil Beat, Nieman Journalism Lab, Digital First Media, and more.

LaFrance has also served as a weekend edition host at Hawaii Public Radio and was a journalism instructor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was also a managing editor at Honolulu Weekly and has worked as a news writer, production assistant at WBUR (NPR).

LaFrance is a B.A. in journalism from Michigan State University and a M.S. in journalism from Boston University.