Vox Appoints Stephen Heuser as Government Editor

[ad_1] Vox Editor-in-Chief and Writer Swati Sharma at this time introduced that Steve Heuser will be part of the group as govt editor, beginning March 23.

In his new position, Heuser will accomplice carefully with Vox’s editorial management to information protection priorities, assist editors and reporters, and additional evolve the publication’s journalism in a quickly altering media panorama. He'll oversee the Politics, Coverage & Concepts workforce; the Even Higher & Way of life workforce; and the In the present day, Defined & Clarify It to Me workforce.

“I’m so thrilled to welcome Steve to Vox,” Sharma stated. “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 generally known as a inventive drive in knitting collectively big-picture storylines on the adjustments driving American political tradition.

As editor of Politico Journal, he led a workforce of editors and designers who developed Politico’s longform tales, in addition to dealing with all its outdoors contributors and opinion journalism. The journal blended quick-turn information evaluation with high-polish narrative journalism and printed a number of of the location’s highest-traffic tales.

Because the founding editor of Politico’s The Agenda, he launched and ran a inventive, design-forward on-line coverage journal that produced a number of the web site’s highest-profile protection of well being, power, know-how, and finance and gained a number of awards.

In his most up-to-date position, Heuser was Politico’s first world know-how 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 stay occasions. He additionally launched the Politico Tech podcast and the Digital Future Every day e-newsletter, now the location’s hottest coverage e-newsletter.

Earlier than coming to Washington, Heuser was Concepts editor on the Boston Globe and a SABEW Award-winning biotechnology reporter. He edited a science collection that gained the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism, in addition to two Pulitzer finalists. He additionally coated a papal conclave from Rome and had facet gigs as restaurant critic, journey author, and guide reviewer.

Heuser is a graduate of Yale College and, in his spare time, enjoys biking, snowboarding, and getting outdoor together with his spouse and really lively first-grader.