Barron’s Group hires Peterson as ideas editor

Matt Peterson has just been appointed ideas editor for Barron’s Group.

In this role, Peterson will seek to expand and enhance Barron’s Group’s commentary and ideas content across all the unit’s titles — Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global and Penta — featuring the perspectives of key players and recognized experts on a wide variety of topics relevant to investors.

Peterson will report to Dave Pettit, managing editor at Barron’s Group.

He joins Barron’s Group from The Atlantic, where he created the magazine’s first digital membership program, The Masthead, and led a team of journalists who reported exclusive stories for members. The project helped build the foundation for The Atlantic’s digital subscriptions model. Matt also started a residency program at The Atlantic to identify and support early-career journalists, which produced long-form reporting on criminal justice, race and inequality.

Peterson began his career covering global affairs. Prior to The Atlantic, he was chief of staff at the research firm Eurasia Group and, before that, managing editor of the digital publication World Politics Review. In 2009-2010 he was a research fellow at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

He has degrees from the London School of Economics and Tufts University.