Prashant Rao, deputy business editor for Europe for The New York Times, is leaving the paper to become global editor of The Atlantic.
He will remain based in London.
As global editor for The Atlantic, Rao will lead the site’s coverage across a wide range of beats related to U.S. foreign policy, democracy, and global conflict, and oversee its team of reporters based in Washington, London, and Paris.
Rao will join The Atlantic in October and succeeds current global editor Kathy Gilsinan, who is moving to cover the counter-terrorism beat as a staff writer.
At the Times, Rao has edited and written about business, economics, finance, and a variety of other topics like experiments in British policing and technology.
Before joining the Times in 2016, Rao spent more than a decade on the wires, including nine years at Agence France-Presse. He was based in Baghdad from 2009 to 2014, the last two years as AFP’s Baghdad bureau chief. During his time there, he covered several elections, a tumultuous security situation, and, in his final weeks, the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State.
Megan Douglass has been named deputy social strategy editor at The Wall Street Journal. Douglass previously…
Business Insider's Louise Ridley is joining The Female Lead, the women's empowerment charity founded by Tesco Clubcard entrepreneur Edwina…
Aruna Viswanatha has been promoted to Washington enterprise editor. She will report to Damian Paletta.…
Bowdeya Tweh has been promoted to Chicago bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal, reporting…
Fierce Healthcare has promoted Heather Landi to executive editor. She has been a senior editor.…
Business news site Quartz has hired Audrey McNamara as breaking news editor. In her role,…