New management team named at InsideClimate News

Inside Climate News has named new editors and a new director of development and marketing.

Vernon Loeb is now executive editor while Erica Goode is managing editor. Megan Boyle is the director of development and marketing.

The company is now focusing on expanding its presence and has allocated staff to various geographic locations with Loeb being based in Philadelphia, Goode in San Francisco and Boyle in Chicago.

“We passed the baton over a number of months to the new, deeply experienced team,” said David Sassoon, founder and publisher of ICN. “It’s a strong and cohesive group that’s now leading our journalism and our sustainable financial growth at an important moment. ICN is fortunate to be in such great hands.”

Previously, Loeb served as managing editor of the Houston Chronicle. Before that, he was with the Los Angeles Times working as an investigations editor. He subsequently served as deputy managing editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer and metro editor at The Washington Post.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that climate change is the biggest and most important story on the planet,” Loeb said, “and to lead one of the country’s best environmental newsrooms at this particular moment is an incredible privilege.”

Goode founded and led the first environment/climate reporting group at The New York Times. She also worked as an assistant science editor, covered the war in Iraq, served as a national correspondent covering criminal justice and for six years was the paper’s psychology/psychiatry writer.

Before that, she was an assistant managing editor at the U.S. News and World Report.

Boyle specializes in strategic marketing, fundraising and digital initiatives for nonprofit organizations. Before coming to ICN, she was vice president for marketing and communications for Yellowstone Forever, the official nonprofit partner of Yellowstone National Park.

She also served as executive director of marketing and communications at Pepperdine University.

Stacy Feldman, who was co-founder and the executive editor for almost seven years, stepped down in December to pursue other opportunities and John H. Cushman, Jr. retired from a long career in journalism last August after a final five years at ICN.