Vox adds two to its audio team
The following was sent out from Vox vice president of audio Liz Kelly Nelson and editorial director of explanatory audio Katherine Wells: Avishay Artsy and Jonquilyn Hill are joining the team as senior producers. Artsy will join Vox’s award-winning daily news podcast Today, Explained, and Hill will be focused on developing new shows and series for Vox’s […]
Amaria swaps Vox for Washington Post
The Washington Post has hired Kainaz Amaria as a visual enterprise editor for National. In her new role, she will expand the Post’s visual journalism and oversee visual-first stories on both quick-turn news and longer-term projects. Amaria will also work with reporters and editors across National, and partner with the Audio, Data, Design, Graphics, Photo […]
Recode senior correspondent Kafka debuts weekly column
Peter Kafka, Recode by Vox senior correspondent and host of Recode Media and Land of the Giants podcast has launched a weekly column focused on the intersection of media and technology. As per Vox: “Each week, Peter will use his expertise and deep sourcing to decode the biggest news in the tech and media worlds […]
Vox hires Cohen to cover domestic policy
The following excerpt note was sent to the newsroom by Vox editor Libby Nelson, along with editorial director Ryan McCarthy: Rachel Cohen is joining Vox as a senior reporter covering domestic policy. Rachel was most recently a contributing writer for the Intercept and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, […]
Barclay to lead climate coverage for NY Times Opinion
The New York Times has hired Eliza Barclay to lead climate coverage for Times Opinion. She has recently been working as a senior editor for science, health and climate at Vox.com. Before that, she was a reporter/editor, food, health and science at NPR. She has also contributed to The Washington Post, The New York Times, The […]
The Atlantic hires Demsas as staff writer
Jerusalem Demsas will join The Atlantic’s editorial staff as a staff writer, covering housing and economy. She begins next month. Currently, she is at Vox, where she has written on America’s housing crisis and co-hosts The Weeds podcast. Prior to Vox, she worked in political communications and on climate-change-policy research. “Jerusalem is a force. She […]
Zhou joins Vox as senior data editor
Youyou Zhou has joined Vox.com as a senior data editor. She recently was at Quartz, where she was a visual journalist on the Things team. She has previously worked at the Associated Press, where she was an interactive news producer. She was also a designer at a Washington, D.C. data visualization studio. She is also […]
Vox taps Jennings as senior politics editor
Vox has hired Natalie Jennings as a senior politics editor. She recently has been working as deputy Washington editor at The Washington Post. Jennings has been with the Post since 2010, holding various roles, including online community manager, manager for social media and engagement and politics, mobile producer, web producer for PostTV, audience engagement editor […]
Oltman named Recode senior editor, Stewart named Vox senior correspondent
Vox has promoted Samantha Oltman to the post of senior editor of Recode, and Emily Stewart to senior correspondent. Vox is the owner of Recode. Oltman will expand on the work she has done since joining Vox in 2019 to lead the relaunch of Recode on Vox.com. She also helped lead and executive produced Recode’s narrative […]
Vox hires Gavin as executive director of learning and development
Vox has hired Phoebe Gavin as executive director of learning and development. Gavin left her position as editorial director of growth at financial news site Quartz earlier this year to focus full-time on her coaching business. She is the author of the book “The Workplace Guide to Time Management: Best Practices to Maximize Productivity.” Gavin joined Quartz in May 2018 as […]
