As a part of a serious growth of its writing and reporting on well being and science, The Atlantic is saying the rent of three new workers writers––Kristen V. Brown, Nicholas Florko, and Shayla Love––together with two contributing writers for Well being, Roxanne Khamsi and Rachel Sugar. All will start with The Atlantic later this month.
First, let me welcome Kristen V. Brown as a workers author. Kristen involves us from Bloomberg, the place she has been a number one voice on the themes of genetics, biohacking, vaccine psychology, and reproductive well being, amongst others. Kristen’s distinctive, relentless reporting on main well being corporations has led her to chart the rise of Hims and the fall of 23andMe. This summer time, she launched False impression, a outstanding podcast collection about her personal journey by means of the fertility business. Kristen is an formidable and inventive reporter, and I’m so glad she’s agreed to affix us.
Additionally becoming a member of us as a workers author is Nicholas Florko. He involves us from STAT, the place he has pioneered a beat on the various ways in which enterprise and regulatory choices have an effect on particular person well-being. Nick is a pure Atlantic author in that he’s routinely drawn to subjects of nice complexity and controversy—dietary supplements, meals tips, vaping, hashish, to call a couple of. Final yr, he was a Livingston finalist for a three-part investigation into prisons’ refusal to deal with hepatitis C. (He additionally purchased uncooked milk on the black market.) We’re more than happy that he’s coming to The Atlantic.
We’re additionally very pleased to welcome Shayla Love as a workers author. Shayla is an everyday contributor to Aeon and The Guardian and she or he was beforehand a workers author for Vice. She is a relentless reporter and a superb author on psychology and human habits. A lot of her work probes the mechanics and mysteries of the human mind: See her latest, arresting New Yorker story a couple of dysfunction that makes folks see monsters, or her Wired piece on collective psychological time journey. Shayla’s tales are energized by the most important questions on well being at the moment. (Ask her about her latest reporting journey to a distant island with a bunch of longevity bros.) At The Atlantic, she’ll cowl the thoughts, in all its complexity. I’m so glad she’s becoming a member of us.
I’m additionally more than happy to share the information that Roxanne Khamsi and Rachel Sugar are becoming a member of us as contributing writers. Roxanne is a powerhouse science author with a expertise for pushing previous standard knowledge and discovering tales earlier than anybody else. Her COVID protection was glorious—she wrote the primary main information story arguing that the coronavirus was airborne, amongst many different important items. She’s written for us about the virus’s worst results on youngsters, the COVID-flu double whammy, and a physician who challenged vaccine orthodoxy, and she’s going to proceed to cowl the organic sciences for us.
Rachel writes the forms of tales about meals and tradition which are unattainable to not learn. She will inform you why Bonne Maman jam is in all places, why aggressive eaters do what they do, and why folks drink so early in airports. Rachel has too many good concepts to catalog right here, and we are able to’t wait to publish her tales. Originality and humor characterize her work, and her tales concerning the many unusual selections that folks make will delight our readers.
Different latest editorial workers to have joined The Atlantic are Shane Harris as a workers author to cowl nationwide safety and intelligence; Jen Balderama, Serena Dai, and Allegra Frank, all senior editors for Tradition; Ali Breland, as a workers author overlaying extremism; and Boris Kachka as senior editor for Books. A number of Atlantic editors have additionally moved to workers writers up to now few months: Julie Beck, Gal Beckerman, Ellen Cushing, and Matteo Wong.
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