Vox Editor-in-Chief and Writer Swati Sharma at the moment introduced that Steve Heuser will be part of the group as govt editor, beginning March 23.
In his new position, Heuser will accomplice intently with Vox’s editorial management to information protection priorities, help editors and reporters, and additional evolve the publication’s journalism in a quickly altering media panorama. He’ll oversee the Politics, Coverage & Concepts staff; the Even Higher & Way of life staff; and the At present, Defined & Clarify It to Me staff.
“I’m so thrilled to welcome Steve to Vox,” Sharma mentioned. “His editorial judgment, management expertise, and deep understanding of the politics and coverage panorama make him an distinctive match for Vox at this second.”
Heuser joins Vox from Politico, the place he held a number of senior roles on the intersection of politics, coverage, and innovation — and was often known as a artistic pressure in knitting collectively big-picture storylines on the modifications driving American political tradition.
As editor of Politico Journal, he led a staff of editors and designers who developed Politico’s longform tales, in addition to dealing with all its exterior contributors and opinion journalism. The journal blended quick-turn information evaluation with high-polish narrative journalism and printed a number of of the positioning’s highest-traffic tales.
Because the founding editor of Politico’s The Agenda, he launched and ran a artistic, design-forward on-line coverage journal that produced among the web site’s highest-profile protection of well being, power, expertise, and finance and received a number of awards.
In his most up-to-date position, Heuser was Politico’s first international expertise editor, main Washington protection of tech coverage and coordinating throughout groups in Brussels, London, and California. He ran main tech storylines and deliberate high-profile packages and reside occasions. He additionally launched the Politico Tech podcast and the Digital Future Every day publication, now the positioning’s hottest coverage publication.
Earlier than coming to Washington, Heuser was Concepts editor on the Boston Globe and a SABEW Award-winning biotechnology reporter. He edited a science sequence that received the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism, in addition to two Pulitzer finalists. He additionally lined a papal conclave from Rome and had facet gigs as restaurant critic, journey author, and e book reviewer.
Heuser is a graduate of Yale College and, in his spare time, enjoys biking, snowboarding, and getting outside together with his spouse and really energetic first-grader.
