Evan Smith, who co-founded The Texas Tribune and its famend competition and has suggested dozens of native newsrooms on their live-journalism companies, is becoming a member of The Atlantic’s workers as a managing director overseeing occasions. In an announcement, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and CEO Nicholas Thompson write that “Evan’s enthusiasm and experience in working profitable journalism occasions is exceptional. He’s already a good friend and mentor to many right here, and we’re delighted that he has agreed to affix our workers.”
At The Atlantic, Evan will lead and scale some of the influential and long-running occasions practices in media, alongside managing editor Krystle Champagne-Norwood and director of occasions Jess Edkins. The Atlantic convenes dozens of annual in-person and digital occasions that attain 1000’s of individuals yearly, anchored by its flagship Atlantic Competition, which in 2025 celebrated its first yr in New York Metropolis after almost twenty years in Washington, D.C. Different recurring sequence handle key areas of journalistic focus, equivalent to well being and science, democracy, politics, books, and tradition.
In December, The Atlantic launched a brand new nationwide occasion sequence, The Atlantic Throughout America, that may finally host occasions in all 50 states about a number of the most advanced problems with our time, together with the beliefs of American democracy, the present administration, tradition, know-how, and the surroundings. The tour kicked off final month in Boston, the place The Atlantic was based in 1857; mentioned free and honest elections and overseas coverage in Phoenix this week; and can go to Santa Fe, Miami, and New Orleans subsequent.
Evan co-founded The Texas Tribune and was its CEO from 2009 to 2022, throughout which era he developed its beloved annual competition in Austin. Earlier than the Tribune, Evan spent almost 18 years at Texas Month-to-month, final serving because the journal’s president and editor in chief. Since 2022, he’s been and can stay a senior adviser at Emerson Collective, the place he works carefully with the management groups of nonprofit information organizations from coast to coast. Evan hosts Overheard with Evan Smith, a weekly half-hour interview program that airs on PBS stations throughout the nation, and is a professor of observe on the LBJ College of Public Affairs on the College of Texas at Austin.
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