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The Atlantic hires Leibovich as a staff writer

Mark Leibovich

Mark Leibovich, of The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, is joining The Atlantic as a staff writer, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced Monday.

Leibovich, one of the country’s premier political reporters and profile writers, will join The Atlantic at a time when the magazine is training its editorial focus on the crisis facing democracy in America and across the globe.

“Mark is an extraordinarily gifted reporter and writer who has helped shape the world’s understanding of American power and American politics,” Goldberg said. “His profiles of political leaders are legendary, both because they are wildly revealing and entertaining, and because they expose, like nothing else, the foibles, bizarre folkways, avarice and, more than occasionally, the humanity of Washington, D.C., and its inhabitants.”

Over the course of 15 years with The New York Times, Leibovich earned a worldwide reputation as a gifted and incisive reporter and profile writer. He is also a best-selling author. His 2013 book, “This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!—in America’s Gilded Capital,” is widely considered to be the most penetrating investigation in recent memory of the culture of Washington. This Town was a New York Times No. 1 best seller. His most recent book, 2018’s Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, was also a New York Times and national best seller. Leibovich won a National Magazine Award in 2011 for his profile of the journalist Mike Allen.

Before joining The New York Times in 2006, Leibovich spent 10 years at The Washington Post, including a stint as a political correspondent for the Style section. He had previously worked for the Post’s Business section and at The San Jose Mercury News, where he covered Silicon Valley. Leibovich is also a contributing political analyst for NBC and MSNBC.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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