SF Standard hires Politico ME Ralph

Elizabeth Ralph is joining the San Francisco Standard newsroom to oversee the Opinion section.

Ralph is currently editor of Politico Magazine and a managing editor at Politico, where she oversees its publication of features, essays, and opinion pieces profiling the people and ideas disrupting politics and power. She helped found the magazine, which has published some of the most creative journalism coming out of DC.

As opinion editor, Ralph will lead the reimagining of our efforts in that area, identifying the key topics and debates for us to have voices weigh in on and recruiting regular contributors to do so.

Opinion plays an outsized role in attracting new subscribers and engaging an influential readership for The Standard and Ralph’s hiring is an important signal of its further ambitions for this area.