The New Republic has hired The Daily Beast’s longtime columnist Michael Tomasky as its new top editor.
The publication is also moving its primary editorial operations from New York to Washington, D.C.
Tomasky starts on Apr. 19.
Tomasky has been a columnist and special correspondent for The Daily Beast for a decade. Currently, he is also the editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a quarterly journal based in Washington, DC. He was also the first U.S. editor of The Guardian as well as editor of The American Prospect.
Tomasky replaces Chris Lehmann, who took the editor’s job in 2019. Lehmann will continue as editor-at-large.