Vox editor-in-chief & writer Swati Sharma and govt editor Elbert Ventura introduced as we speak that Elias Isquith will probably be becoming a member of the publication as a senior editor for coverage, politics, and concepts.
“In our conversations with him, it was clear that Elias is passionately all for the identical questions that drive our work,” mentioned Libby Nelson, Vox’s editorial director for coverage, politics, and concepts. “What are the roots of our present political second? What is occurring as we speak that may nonetheless matter in every week, a month, or a decade — and the way can we convey these stakes? What’s one of the simplest ways to present readers the context, nuance, and understanding they want on complicated matters?”
Isquith, who will begin at Vox on September 22, is presently a producer and researcher on The Ezra Klein Present on the New York Occasions. There, he targeted on politics (particularly the ascendant American proper) and international coverage, producing episodes with Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vivek Ramaswamy, and extra.
Earlier than the Occasions, Elias was the editorial director of the NAACP Authorized Training & Protection Fund; the editor in chief of Voices, the weblog of the Open Society Foundations; an editor and author at Salon; and the chief editor of the digital media startup Cafe.com.
