The Atlantic is announcing four new members of its editorial staff: Emily Bobrow and Katie Zezima will join as senior editors, both as part of the politics, global, and ideas team; Will Gottsegen was hired as a staff writer for The Atlantic’s flagship newsletter, The Daily; and Jonathan Lemire, who has reported extensively on the Trump administration this year as a contributing writer, becomes a staff writer.
More details from our editors about all four journalists follow:
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First, Emily Bobrow. She comes to us from The Wall Street Journal, where she is a features editor and reporter for the Review section, and where she has gained a wonderful reputation as a creative, thoughtful and supportive editor, commissioning and editing some of the Journal’s most widely read pieces. Previously she wrote the Journal’s Weekend Confidential column. She has worked as a staff editor and writer at The Economist, covering culture, politics, and policy. Some of you may recall that Emily has also contributed to our pages, writing for the Family section on how the pandemic would put marriage even further out of reach for many Americans.
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Katie Zezima is joining us after 11 years at The Washington Post, where she earned a similarly wonderful reputation for her wise stewardship of some of the paper’s most ambitious work. A story doctor par excellence, Katie has guided memorable journalism that has racked up accolades and exposed abuses. Katie has led coverage on a variety of subjects, but her focus lately has been nature’s wrath: hurricanes, droughts, fires, and the rising seas. Katie joined the Post as a White House correspondent during the Obama Administration and she later hit the presidential campaign trail, traveling to 33 states with GOP candidates, all running doomed campaigns against a political neophyte. She previously reported for The New York Times and the Associated Press.
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And a note about Jonathan Lemire, a journalism machine. He started with us as a contributing writer in January and has since published an impressive number of timely reports, taking readers inside the Trump administration’s thinking, making a specialty of reporting on the president’s foreign policy and a subspecialty of the Trump–Putin relationship. Before The Atlantic, Jonathan worked for Politico, the Associated Press, and the New York Daily News. He is the author of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020. Many of you know him because you’ve been interviewed by him on Morning Joe. Jon is a co-host of the show, and is seen on television roughly 22 hours every day. I’ve been on the show with him as he hosted and simultaneously reported for The Atlantic. It’s an undeniably impressive trick.
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Will Gottsegen is joining as a staff writer on the newsletters team. You’ll likely recognize Will’s byline from the excellent writing he’s already done for us in recent years. He’s explained Donald Trump’s fixation on crypto to our readers, interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried weeks before his arrest, and catalogued SBF’s downfall. Will started his journalism career as a music critic and has been on staff at CoinDesk, Billboard, and SPIN.
The clarity, humor, and sharpness of Will’s writing make him a perfect fit for his new role as a Daily writer, where he will work alongside the indispensable David A. Graham to guide our newsletter readers through the biggest ideas and news of the day. David has deftly shouldered the Daily since taking over from the similarly indispensable Tom Nichols in February, and we’re very excited about what David, Will, and the rest of the newsletter team will now be able to achieve together.
Recently announced editorial hires at The Atlantic include staff writers Tom Bartlett, Tyler Austin Harper, Anna Holmes, Sally Jenkins, Quinta Jurecic, Idrees Kahloon, Jake Lundberg, Toluse Olorunnipa, Alexandra Petri, Missy Ryan, Vivian Salama, Jamie Thompson, Josh Tyrangiel, and Nancy Youssef; and senior editors Drew Goins, Jenna Johnson, and Dan Zak.
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