The Wall Street Journal has hired Anna Silman to cover power and culture.
Silman will start next month. “I’ll be writing about the social dynamics of wealth and privilege and the powerful people shaping culture from behind closed doors,” she wrote on social media.
She has been freelancing for the past year after being a Business Insider senior features reporter.
She spent five years as a senior writer at The Cut at New York Magazine, where she was a generalist writing features, profiles, and essays on a wide variety of topics including culture, lifestyle, media, health, identity, and social behavior.
Silman spent four months developing NY Mag’s “Diary of a Hospital” series profiling frontline workers through COVID’s peak, and she published numerous features exploring the social dynamics of the pandemic.
She has also worked on audio stories for The Cut’s podcasts with Gimlet and Vox Media, including reporting, writing, and coproducing a feature on women in the far-right movement.
Silman is a graduate of McGill University and New York University.
