Noah Shachtman

Noah Shachtman is an American journalist. He is currently the Editor in Chief of The Daily Beast.[1] He previously served as Executive Editor of the site.[2] A former non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, he also worked as Executive Editor for News at Foreign Policy.[3][4]

Noah Shachtman
Alma materGeorgetown University
OccupationJournalist
TitleEditor in Chief of The Daily Beast
AwardsNational Magazine Award for Reporting, Digital Media (2012)

Early life and education

Born to a Jewish family, Shachtman graduated from Georgetown University and attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[5]

Career

Prior to beginning his career in journalism, Shachtman was a campaign staffer in the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign. Shachtman has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Wired, Slate, Salon, HuffPost, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.[6][7] He has also appeared as a guest on MSNBC and Frontline.[8][9] Shachtman was a featured speaker at the seventh Center for a New American Security Conference.[10]

As an editor at Wired, Shachtman co-founded the Danger Room blog, for which he won the 2012 National Magazine Award for reporting in digital media. Shachtman left Wired to join The Daily Beast as its new executive editor in 2014.[11] When John Avlon left in May 2018, he was promoted to editor-in-chief. [12]

Shachtman has reported from Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, The Pentagon, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.[13]

References
  1. Wemple, Erik (2017). "Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him". The Washington Post.
  2. "After Tina Brown's Exit, Daily Beast Brings In Editing Help". The New York Times. 2014-01-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  3. Rothstein, Betsy. "Foreign Policy Makes Big Announcements". FishbowlDC. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  4. "Noah Shachtman". The Brookings Institution.
  5. https://www.vox.com/2018/11/13/18090172/noah-shachtman-daily-beast-gonzo-spirit-gawker-trump-steven-perlberg-recode-media-podcast
  6. Shachtman, Noah. "Noah Shachtman". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  7. "Noah Shachtman | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  8. "Trump signs veto. TRANSCRIPT: 03/15/2019, The Beat w. Ari Melber". MSNBC. 2019-03-15. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  9. "Interviews - Noah Shachtman | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  10. CNAS 2013 Annual Conference: Bugs, Bytes and Bots, retrieved 2020-01-18
  11. Somaiya, Ravi (2014-01-16). "After Tina Brown's Exit, Daily Beast Brings In Editing Help". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  12. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/05/24/big-changes-at-the-daily-beast-eic-john-avlon-to-cnn-noah-shachtman-to-replace-him/
  13. "Noah Shachtman". Brookings. Retrieved 2020-01-18.


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