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Jacob Weisberg, Editor

Jacob Weisberg is editor of Slate. He was previously Slate's chief political correspondent and the originator of its "Strange Bedfellow" and "Ballot Box" columns. Before joining Slate in 1996, he wrote about politics for magazines including the New Republic, Newsweek, and New York Magazine, and has written as well for Vanity Fair and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of the 1996 book In Defense of Government and the 2000 eBook The Road to Chadville. He is also the editor of The Slate Book of George W. Bushisms.

Cyrus Krohn, Publisher

Cyrus Krohn is publisher of Slate. He directed the political advertising division for MSN.com, the Microsoft Network, for the 2000 presidential election cycle. Prior to joining Microsoft, Krohn produced programs for CNN's Crossfire and Larry King Live. Previously, Krohn served in the White House as an intern to Vice President Dan Quayle. He graduated from Lynchburg College, Virginia.

Staff (scroll down to read biographies of other Slate staffers)

Kevin Arnovitz (Fray Editor), Andy Bowers (Senior Editor), Bryan Curtis (Associate Editor), Susan Daniels (Copy Editor), Jonathan Epstein (Software Development Engineer/Program Manager), Gretchen Evanson (Office Manager), Amanda Fortini (Associate Editor), Kris Fritz (Software Development Engineer), Siân Gibby (Copy Editor), Lori Johnson (Production Designer), Kathleen Kincaid (Design Director), Michael Kinsley (Founding Editor), Cyrus Krohn (Publisher), Rachael Larimore (Copy Editor), Josh Levin (Editorial Assistant), Dahlia Lithwick (Senior Editor), Scott Moore (General Manager of the MSN News & Information Division), Timothy Noah (Senior Writer), Meghan O'Rourke (Culture Editor), Josh Payton (Interactive Designer), Jill Hunter Pellettieri (Assistant Editor), David Plotz (Deputy Editor), William Saletan (Chief Political Correspondent), Jack Shafer (Editor at Large), Igor Shames (Support Engineer), Laurie Snyder (Copy Chief), JoAnne Spencer (Production Assistant), Chris Suellentrop (Deputy Washington Bureau Chief), Maureen Sullivan (Copy Editor), June Thomas (West Coast Editor), Eliza Truitt (Associate Publisher), Julia Turner (Assistant Editor), Jacob Weisberg (Editor).

Contributors

David Edelstein, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Greenberg, Daniel Gross, Christopher Hitchens, Margo Howard, Fred Kaplan, Mickey Kaus, Steven E. Landsburg, Michael Lewis, Eric Liu, Nathan Myhrvold, Robert Neubecker, Robert Pinsky (Poetry Editor), Mark Alan Stamaty, Seth Stevenson, Eric Umansky, Rob Walker, Robert Wright, Emily Yoffe.

Staff Biographies

Kevin Arnovitz is Slate's Fray editor. He writes and edits the Zagat Survey Guide to Los Angeles Nightlife and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Out, los angeles, the Spokane Spokesman-Review, the Washington City Paper, Routledge's Radical Society, and Might. He also has written episodes for the NBC Saturday morning teen dramedies Just Deal and Scout's Safari. He is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in Los Angeles.

Andy Bowers is a senior editor at Slate and oversees the magazine's radio projects. Before joining Slate, he was a longtime correspondent and producer for National Public Radio; among other postings, he served as NPR's bureau chief in both London and Moscow and covered the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. He is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Los Angeles.

Bryan Curtis is Slate's film and sports editor. In addition to Slate, he has written for the New York Times and New Republic. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas.

Susan Daniels is a Slate copy editor. She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Iowa. Before coming to Slate, she was an editor at a consumer finance Web site.

David Edelstein is the movie critic for Slate and has also written film criticism for the Village Voice, the New York Post, and Rolling Stone. His features have appeared in Vanity Fair, Vogue, and New York. He is the author of the play Blaming Mom and the co-author, with Christine Vachon, of a best-selling book on independent filmmaking, Shooting to Kill.

Jonathan Epstein serves a dual function as one of Slate's Web developers and a program manager for the magazine. Before coming to Slate, Jonathan worked as a Web designer at Encarta Online and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he graduated with a B.S. in mathematics.

Amanda Fortini is a culture editor focusing on health, medicine, food, and fashion, in addition to other cultural topics. She also edits the Slate "Diary." Amanda previously worked at the New York Review of Books and Mirabella; she has written for the New York Times Book Review, among other publications. She is a graduate of Harvard University and lives in Manhattan.

Siân Gibby is a Slate copy editor and the editor of the "Faith-Based" column. She received her master's degree in architecture from the University of Cincinnati and worked for a number of online entertainment sites before coming to Slate.

David Greenberg writes Slate's "History Lesson" column and other occasional features. Previously, he worked as an editor of Slate's culture section. Now a Whiting Fellow at Columbia University, he received his Ph.D. in American History in May 2001. He has served as acting editor and managing editor of the New Republic and has written for, among other publications, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Foreign Affairs. His forthcoming book about Richard Nixon's place in American culture will be published by W.W. Norton. He lives in New York City.

Daniel Gross writes Slate's "Moneybox" column. He is the author of Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time and Bull Run: Wall Street, the Democrats, and the New Politics of Personal Finance, and the co-author of Generations of Corning: 150 Years in the Life of a Global Corporation, 1851-2001. He is the editor of STERNbusiness, a management journal published by New York University's Stern School of Business. He attended Cornell University and studied American history at Harvard University.

Margo Howard writes the "Dear Prudence" column for Slate. An experienced columnist, she was a feature section columnist for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Daily-News. Her column of social commentary was syndicated nationwide. Howard has written for many publications, including TV Guide, The Nation, the New Republic, People, the Critic, Boston magazine, and New York Newsday. She is the author of Eppie: The Story of Ann Landers, a family memoir published in 1981.

Fred Kaplan writes the "War Stories" column for Slate as well as occasional pieces on music and consumer electronics. He is the author of The Wizards of Armageddon and a former staff reporter for the Boston Globe, having been its military correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, and New York bureau chief. A regular writer on jazz, hi-fi, and DVDs for the Absolute Sound and the Perfect Vision, he has also written on a variety of subjects for the New York Times, the Atlantic, The New Yorker, Scientific American, and others. A long time ago, he was the foreign and defense policy adviser to Rep. Les Aspin. He graduated from Oberlin College and has a Ph.D. in political science from MIT. He lives in Brooklyn.

Mickey Kaus writes "Kausfiles." He has written about public policy for Newsweek and several other publications, including the New Republic and the Washington Monthly, where he remains a contributing editor. Kaus published The End of Equality in 1992. The book was co-winner of the 1992 Washington Monthly Political Book Award. Kaus currently lives in Los Angeles.

Kathleen Kincaid is the design director of Slate. Before joining Slate, she worked on Encarta, Microsoft's multimedia encyclopedia, and the national photo-documentary project From the Hip. Her design work can be seen on book covers for Seal Press. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the school of design's master's program at NCSU.

Michael Kinsley, founding editor of Slate, founded the publication in June 1996. In 1999, he was named Editor of the Year by the Columbia Journalism Review. Previously, he was senior editor at the New Republic in Washington, D.C., and co-host of the CNN program Crossfire. He is also a contributing writer at Time magazine.

Kinsley served two stints as editor of the New Republic and has also been editor of Harper's magazine, managing editor of the Washington Monthly, and American survey editor of the Economist in London. For 11 years, he wrote the "TRB From Washington" column for the New Republic, which also appeared in the Washington Post and other newspapers. He also has written a regular column for the Wall Street Journal. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, and many other publications.

Kinsley attended Harvard University, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School and is a member of the District of Columbia bar.

Steven E. Landsburg writes "Everyday Economics" for Slate and is the author, most recently, of Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values, and the Meaning of Life.

Rachael Larimore is a Slate copy editor. She got her bachelor's degree in journalism from Ohio University and has covered sports for various newspapers. Before coming to Slate, she worked as a writer and editor for NBA.com and NFL.com.

Josh Levin is a Slate editorial assistant. Before coming to Slate, he wrote for the Washington City Paper. Levin, a native of New Orleans, graduated from Brown University.

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate. She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for Slate. Before joining Slate as a free-lancer in 1999, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nev. Her work has appeared in the New Republic, Elle, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Washington Post. She is co-author of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World, a legal humor book. She is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School.

Eric Liu writes the "Teachings" column for Slate. He has published two books—Next, a 1994 Norton anthology, and The Accidental Asian, a 1998 New York Times "Notable Book"—and is now writing a book on ways that people teach. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, Liu was a speechwriter for President Clinton and was later the president's deputy domestic policy adviser. He teaches public policy at the University of Washington in Seattle and has been a regular on-air commentator for MSNBC.

Scott Moore is general manager of the MSN News & Information Division; he manages its advertising sales, circulation, product development, and marketing. Previously, Moore was advertising manager for the Expedia® travel service. Moore also served as director of business development and advertising for MSNBC.com after joining Microsoft Corp. as acquisition editor in June 1994. He holds a Master's degree in business administration from the University of Washington and a Bachelor's degree in visual and environmental studies from Harvard University.

Timothy Noah writes Slate's "Chatterbox" column. Previously, he was an assistant managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, a reporter in the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal, and an editor of the Washington Monthly.

Meghan O'Rourke is Slate's culture editor. Before joining the magazine, she worked as a fiction and nonfiction editor at The New Yorker; her writing has appeared in Slate, The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Brooklyn.

Jill Hunter Pellettieri is a Slate assistant editor in the New York office. Jill previously worked at Legal Affairs magazine in New Haven, Conn., and before that was an editor at the now-defunct Silicon Alley Reporter. A native of the Bay Area, she is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Robert Pinsky edits Slate's poems. His most recent book of poems is Jersey Rain. He is a contributor to PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and from 1997-2000 was U.S. poet laureate.

David Plotz is deputy editor of Slate. Before joining the magazine in 1996, Plotz was senior editor and staff writer for the Washington City Paper. Plotz has written for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Rolling Stone, GQ, the New Republic, and the Washington Post, among other publications.

William Saletan is Slate's chief political correspondent. He writes about how politicians and interest groups are spinning the issues of the day. He is the author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War, which argues that pro-choice and pro-life activists have lost the abortion debate to a third constituency: libertarian conservatives. He is a past editor of the Hotline and a contributor to numerous publications.

Jack Shafer is a Slate editor at large. He edited two city weeklies, Washington City Paper and SF Weekly, before joining Slate prior to its 1996 launch. Shafer has written on new media, the press, and drug policy for publications big (New York Times Magazine) and small (Inquiry). His "Press Box" column appears several times a week in Slate.

Laurie Snyder is Slate's copy chief and edits the "In Other Magazines" column. She has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Chris Suellentrop is Slate's deputy Washington bureau chief and writes the "Assessment" column. Previously, he edited "Sports Nut," wrote the "Explainer" column, and during the 2000 presidential campaign he wrote and edited Slate's "Politics" page. Before coming to Slate, he reported for four daily newspapers as a student, intern, and full-time reporter (though not all at once).

Maureen Sullivan is a Slate copy editor and edits the "Dear Prudence" column. Before joining Slate, she covered health care for Stateline.org. Prior to that, she worked for a number of publishing companies in San Francisco and served in the 1994 campaign of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a B.A. from Santa Clara University.

June Thomas writes "International Papers" and is Slate's West Coast editor. Before joining the magazine she was an editor and foreign rights manager at Seal Press and managing editor of Women in Translation, a publishing company specializing in women's writing from around the world. She was born and raised in Manchester, England.

Eliza Truitt is Slate's associate publisher. Previously she was a senior editor working on the "Diary," "Breakfast Table," "Dialogues," "Dispatches," and "Shopping" sections. Before coming to Slate, she worked as an assistant editor at Villard Books and Doubleday. Her writing has also appeared in Rolling Stone and the Boston Globe.

Julia Turner, an assistant editor at Slate, contributes to "In Other Magazines" and "Explainer." Before joining Slate, she was an editor at the now-defunct Sports Illustrated Women, and worked at Time Inc. in magazine development. Turner, who hails from Boston, is a graduate of Brown University.

Emily Yoffe writes on political, medical, and cultural topics for Slate. Formerly she wrote Slate's "Explainer" and created the "Keeping Tabs" column. Her articles have appeared in many publications including the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Details, Rolling Stone, and the Washington Post. She was a senior editor at Texas Monthly and a correspondent for Newsweek. She was also a Knight Fellow at Stanford University.

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