The Atlantic hires WSJ’s Youssef
The Atlantic has hired Nancy Youssef from The Wall Street Journal to be a staff writer. Youssef is a national security correspondent whose reporting has focused largely on the U.S. military and the Arab world. Youssef has a great knowledge of the Middle East. She was based in Baghdad during the Iraq War and later in Cairo, where […]
The Atlantic hires Washington Post’s Petri
The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg sent out the following on Monday: Dear everyone, I’m writing today to share the outstanding news that Alexandra Petri, one of America’s greatest columnists – and funniest writers – is joining The Atlantic as a staff writer. You are undoubtedly familiar with her work as a columnist for The Washington Post (although […]
The Atlantic hires Ryan from Washington Post
The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, sent out the following: Dear everyone, I’m happy to share the news that Missy Ryan will be joining The Atlantic next month as a staff writer, as part of the continued expansion of our national security coverage. Missy, who comes to us from The Washington Post, is known as one of […]
The Atlantic hires three new staffers
The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg sent out the following on Thursday: Dear everyone, I’m writing today to share the excellent news that Nick Miroff, Isaac Stanley-Becker, and Alex Hoyt are joining The Atlantic—Nick and Isaac as staff writers; Alex as a senior editor. All three are immensely talented journalists operating at the top of […]
The Atlantic hires Witte as managing editor
The Atlantic has hired Griff Witte as a managing editor to lead its growing politics and accountability team. Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg sent out the following: Dear everyone, We’re very happy to let you know that Griff Witte is joining The Atlantic as a managing editor. Griff, who is currently the senior editor at The Washington Post in charge of political […]
Florko departs STAT News for The Atlantic
The Atlantic has hired Nicholas Florko as a staff writer. Florko has been at STAT News, where he has pioneered a beat on the many ways that business and regulatory decisions affect individual well-being. Last year, he was a Livingston finalist for a three-part investigation into prisons’ refusal to treat hepatitis C. (He also bought raw milk on the black market.) […]
The Atlantic hires Bloomberg’s Brown
The Atlantic has hired Kristen V. Brown as a staff writer. Brown has been at Bloomberg News, where she has been covering genetics, biohacking, vaccine psychology, and reproductive health, among others. Brown’s reporting on major health companies has led her to chart the rise of Hims and the fall of 23andMe. This summer, she launched “Misconception,” a podcast […]
The Atlantic seeks an assistant editor
The Atlantic is seeking an assistant editor to join our newsroom audience engagement team, whose mission includes maximizing the reach and impact of our journalism, cultivating relationships with readers and building habit among them, helping our newsroom understand those audiences better, and innovating fresh tactics on emerging platforms to keep The Atlantic at the frontier […]
The Atlantic’s Hadjis becomes Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism fellow
Emma Williams, assistant audience and engagement editor at The Atlantic, is now a Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism fellow at Poynter Institute. Previously, Williams was an audience and engagement fellow at The Texas Tribune. She interned at KUT Public Media and Austin Monthly Magazine. Williams has a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, where […]
Washington Week names Goldberg moderator
The following excerpt was sent out from Editor & Publisher: Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president and chief executive officer of WETA and president of NewsHour Productions, has announced Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, as the new moderator of Washington Week. The Atlantic will join NewsHour and WETA as an editorial partner on the show, to be […]
