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As The Atlantic continues its newsroom expansion, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and executive editor Adrienne LaFrance announced today five new editors and reporters joining the Politics, Culture, and Global teams: Helen Lewis and Tom McTague as staff writers with The Atlantic’s bureau in London; Shirley Li as a staff writer covering culture, based in Los Angeles; and on Politics, John Hendrickson as senior editor in New York and Saahil Desai as associate editor in Washington. “The Atlantic, I am proud to say, is a talent magnet, and these five journalists are all excellent additions to our growing team,” Goldberg said. The five editors and writers will contribute to coverage areas that have been growing markedly in the past 12 months. Earlier this month, Goldberg also announced a restructure of his editorial leadership team, promoting LaFrance to executive editor overseeing all of digital, podcasting, and video; and both Swati Sharma and Sarah Yager to managing editors running day-to-day coverage and editorial operations, respectively. Helen Lewis and Tom McTague join The Atlantic’s bureau in London, where international editor Prashant Rao oversees the site’s coverage of foreign policy, democracy, and global conflict as well as its team of reporters in London, Paris, and Washington. Lewis has been associate editor of the New Statesman, and was previously its deputy editor. At The Atlantic she will continue to focus on some of the biggest issues shaping a changing world—the decline in democracy, the culture wars, toxicity in public discourse, and feminism.

New York (CNN Business)Former Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur, whose hiring by CNN stirred controversy last month, is no longer taking a job as a political editor in the Washington bureau. She tweeted on Friday: "It's been a great vacation but I am back on twitter! And news: I will go to CNN as a Political Analyst instead. Isgur is a longtime Republican political operative who previously worked for Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney. She served as the DOJ's top spokeswoman during Jeff Sessions' tenure as attorney general. Earlier this year she met with television network executives and showed an interest in moving from politics to journalism. Even once it was clarified that she'd be reporting to political director David Chalian, and would be one of several people involved in coordinating 2020 coverage, there were still deep concerns about the role -- including from inside CNN. She was set to start working at CNN next week. But a network spokeswoman indicated that Isgur proposed a shift away from the editor role. "We can confirm that when Sarah came to us and proposed her role be adjusted to a political analyst instead, we agreed and we look forward to her starting in that role," the CNN spokeswoman said Friday afternoon.

Washington, D.C. (June 14, 2018)—The Atlantic has hired top newsroom editor Vernon Loeb to be its Politics Editor, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and TheAtlantic.com editor Adrienne LaFrance announced today. “We have ambitious goals for our politics and national security coverage leading up to 2020,” said Goldberg. “An editor of Vernon’s skill, experience and proven leadership abilities will help us achieve our goals.” Under the leadership of Goldberg, LaFrance, and Loeb, The Atlantic will continue to expand its distinctive and highly-sought-after reporting on the White House, federal agencies, national security, Congress, and the culture of the capital. Loeb’s first priorities will be to build up reporting teams covering Congress and the midterm elections, and reporters covering the White House and national security. Loeb has spent his career as a reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Houston Chronicle. As a foreign correspondent at The Inquirer, he covered Tiananmen Square, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, and the first Gulf War. Loeb succeeds Yoni Appelbaum, who has been tapped to oversee The Atlantic’s forthcoming Ideas section. Appelbaum guided The Atlantic’s urgent and sophisticated coverage of the 2016 election and the first year of the Trump presidency. Politics is a key focus in The Atlantic’s expansion this year—which, already underway, will see the company add 100 new staff and investments across its divisions and platforms. In the newsroom, The Atlantic also recently announced the opening of a San Francisco bureau and in March debuted a new Family section.

Houston Chronicle Managing Editor Vernon Loeb -- who led the newsroom through Hurricane Harvey and an investigation of the state's special education program -- has been named politics editor of The Atlantic in Washington, D.C. The Chronicle's coverage for Harvey in 2017 and the special education investigation in 2016 were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Loeb, 62, joined the Chronicle in 2014 from the Washington Post, where he had been metro editor. On the morning of Sunday, August 27, Houston Chronicle Managing Editor Vernon Loeb wrote in an email to the entire newsroom: "We are heading into a severe flooding emergency and everyone on the Chronicle editorial staff is activated." "It was an absolutely breathtaking tribute to journalism, and the power of a great newspaper." Loeb, also a marathon runner, said he has come to love Houston during his nearly five years here. "I have so many fond memories of running the Buffalo Bayou, carousing around Montrose, watching the Astros, eating, editing, and savoring the Chronicle every morning," he said. "My goals at the Atlantic can be boiled down to two pretty basic things: Making sure the writers feel motivated and appreciated, and helping them find the most ambitious stories to tell in Washington and across the country," he said. Loeb began his career as a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, then left to become a reporter at the Washington Post, where he covered City Hall, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. He then returned to the Inquirer as an editor before moving back to the Washington Post.

He worked for 17 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, only to leave for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. That news organization is the Atlantic, which has announced that the 62-year-old Loeb will take over in July as politics editor. “Yeah, we want to beat everybody all the time,” says Goldberg, while acknowledging that the Atlantic isn’t going to match the firepower of the Times and The Post. Under Loeb’s management, the Houston Chronicle was a Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. There was no other story in town. “Nobody covers hurricanes at this paper full-time, and now everyone is covering hurricanes at this paper full-time,” said Loeb at the time. The magazine turned a profit in 2010 for the first time in a long time, thanks to aggressive digital maneuvers. Now 65, Bradley has sold a majority stake in Atlantic Media to Emerson Collective, the good-deed outfit headed by Laurene Powell Jobs. “Laurene becoming partners with David Bradley means that we can grow even faster,” says Goldberg. “I said welcome to the Internet,” says Goldberg.

Donald Trump’s attacks on the press are “out of control” and damaging “the civic life and debate of the country”, the editor of the New York Times said on Sunday. Dean Baquet was responding to a tweet in which the president attacked his main rival. Story on John Kelly isn’t true, just another hit job!” The Post story in question concerned the reportedly waning power of White House chief of staff John Kelly and what the paper called “recurring and escalating clashes [with] the president [that] trace the downward arc of Kelly’s eight months in the White House”. The Post said the story was based on “interviews with 16 administration officials, outside advisers and presidential confidants, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity”. The website cited “sources familiar with events” and quoted an unnamed “senior administration official” who played the story down. Trump has regularly complained about anonymously sourced press reports and books and attacked media targets including the Times, CNN and NBC. @WattersWorld.” Baquet said: “I think the press will keep doing what it does, but … if [Trump] creates a culture where Fox and Friends and Jesse Watters are regarded as serious journalism, and the New York Times and the Washington Post are not, he will have done longstanding, harmful effect on the country. But it’s out of control.” Regarding the Post’s story on Kelly, Baquet said “every one of those deeply reported inside stories about the White House from the Times or the Post have all been verified. And I will defend them on these principles and they will defend me on these principles.” Baquet was behind the New York Times’s decision to stop attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, an annual Washington event at which the press and the president exchange humorous barbs. Trump did not attend last year and the White House has indicated he will skip it again this year.

New York Times editorial director of books Radhika Jones is expected to be named Monday as the next editor of Vanity Fair, according to the New York Times. Jones will take the place of longtime editor Graydon Carter, who will step down in December. The 68-year-old Carter had been editor since 1992. The 44-year-old Jones also was also a deputy editor at Time Magazine, where her responsibilities included the publication's "Time 100" issue. She has also worked at the Paris Review, Grand Street, Artforum and The Moscow Times. Last December, it advertised itself as the magazine “Trump doesn’t want you to read” after the then-president-elect slammed it on Twitter. Trump was angered by Vanity Fair’s scathing review of Trump Grill, ripping the magazine’s editor, Graydon Carter, a frequent sparring partner who once needled the businessman for having small hands. Within 24 hours of Trump's response, Vanity Fair had racked up 13,000 new subscribers. “This is the highest number of subscriptions ever sold in a single day at Condé Nast, Vanity Fair's parent company,” a spokesperson said at the time. Vanity Fair is published by Conde Nast and is based in New York.

Vanity Fair Editor and Donald Trump Antagonist Graydon Carter Stepping Down. Carter has long been known for the influence he wields in the media and entertainment worlds. Under Carter, Vanity Fair has grown in cultural influence and journalistic impact. But the Vanity Fair editor told the New York Times he's ready to leave now, "while the magazine is on top." “I want to leave while it’s in vibrant shape, both in the digital realm and the print realm," he said. "And I wanted to have a third act — and I thought, time is precious." Carter has been a leading antagonist of President Trump ever since he called Trump a "short fingered vulgarian" in Spy Magazine in the 1980s. Following the presidential campaign, Trump has taken to lashing out at the magazine and Carter himself on Twitter. “He’s tweeted about me 42 times, all in the negative,” Carter told the Times. They’re all on a wall—this is the only wall Trump’s built—outside my office.” Carter, who hosts a famed Academy Awards party every year, says he has ideas for a future project.