Inside Larger Ed names newsroom management staff

From my first day as editor in chief at Inside Larger Ed, I’ve felt an enormous accountability to not break something. By “something,” I imply all of the stuff that Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman constructed over the previous twenty years: the belief of our loyal readers, our fame for rigorous and goal reporting, and our information edge. On the identical time, I’ve had work to do to get the fitting staff in place to take our newsroom into the long run. Pulling collectively my A-team of senior editors has been on the prime of my to-do checklist. 

Immediately, I’m thrilled to announce whom these newsroom leaders shall be. I’ve appointed Susan Greenberg to be Inside Larger Ed’s new managing editor. She’s going to oversee the newsroom and work with different senior editors to set our information agenda and develop newsroom expertise.

Sue joined Inside Larger Ed in 2021 as a senior editor centered on admissions and enrollment, enterprise and management, and pupil life. The job was the proper mix of her two careers: journalism and schooling. She spent 20 years as a author and editor at Newsweek journal, the place she lined every thing from worldwide affairs to arts and tradition; as a freelancer, she additionally contributed essays to The New York Occasions, The Washington Publish and The Atlantic, amongst different publications. On the identical time, she realized the ins and outs of academe as a school member, educating English and journalism at Phillips Academy, Middlebury Faculty and Champlain Faculty in Vermont.

Bob Moser shall be our new options and evaluation editor, spearheading a brand new desk within the Inside Larger Ed newsroom. Our deep dives will complement our cutting-edge each day information protection, giving reporters extra time to be artistic, analyze traits and join the dots for our readers.

Bob is a local North Carolinian who’s been a senior editor and author for a number of nationwide and regional magazines, specializing in information options and commentary on U.S. politics, faith and LGBTQ+ rights. A former editor in chief of The Texas Observer, he has additionally held senior posts at The Nation, The American Prospect, Nationwide Journal, The New Republic and Texas Month-to-month. Bob has reported and written for The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Columbia Journalism Evaluate and The Washington Publish Journal, amongst others. He’s the creator of Blue Dixie: Reawakening the South’s Democratic Majority and the winner of awards together with the SPJ Inexperienced Eyeshade and the GLAAD Award for greatest journal journalism.

Information will, nevertheless, stay on the coronary heart of what we do. I’m delighted to announce that Katherine Knott is our information editor. Over the previous two years, Katherine has made a reputation for herself amongst our readers and throughout larger schooling for her in-depth protection of federal coverage at Inside Larger Ed. She’s a gifted journalist with a eager information sense honed by years of native reporting. Katherine will direct our each day information protection and assist reporters throughout all beats. Earlier than becoming a member of Inside Larger Ed, she reported on Okay-12 schooling for native newspapers in Virginia and Kentucky. She obtained her bachelor’s diploma in journalism from the College of Missouri at Columbia.

I’m excited for the way forward for Inside Larger Ed. I additionally know that modifications are all the time slightly scary—and I’m nonetheless nervous I would break one thing! However because the presidential marketing campaign heats up and the notions of educational freedom, open debate and a school diploma are known as into query, I’m reminded of how privileged we larger schooling journalists are. We get to spend daily telling the tales of the people who find themselves dedicated to the democratic mission of upper schooling, celebrating their achievements and being a crucial good friend once they fall brief. Inside Larger Ed will proceed to do our half in that mission, serving the upper schooling sector via sturdy and honest journalism. We sit up for remaining the very first thing you learn if you get up.

I’m nonetheless attending to know everybody within the sector, and I’d like it if you happen to’d attain out to say hi there or to provide us some suggestions or a narrative tip. You will get in contact at [email protected].