Betsy Reed, the editor in chief of The Intercept, has been tapped to be the pinnacle editor of The Guardian’s U.S. newsroom, the British information group stated Thursday.
Ms. Reed has steered The Intercept, a newsroom that makes a speciality of investigative journalism on matters together with nationwide safety and felony justice, since 2015. Earlier than she joined The Intercept, Ms. Reed was govt editor of The Nation.
Katharine Viner, the editor in chief at Guardian Information & Media, described Ms. Reed as “certainly one of America’s foremost and skilled editors” in an announcement.
“With Betsy becoming a member of to steer our U.S. efforts, and with over 1 million paying supporters all over the world, I really feel very optimistic concerning the prospects for Guardian U.S.,” Ms. Viner stated within the assertion.
Ms. Reed will change John Mulholland someday within the fall, a spokeswoman for The Guardian stated.
The Intercept stated it was selling Roger Hodge, The Intercept’s deputy editor, to succeed Ms. Reed. Nausicaa Renner, Washington editor at The Intercept, will turn out to be deputy editor.
Whereas at The Intercept, Ms. Reed oversaw investigative journalism that gained prizes together with the George Polk Award, Nationwide Journal Awards and the Sidney Hillman Prize. The Intercept was additionally a Pulitzer Prize finalist final 12 months for the podcast “Any individual,” an investigation into the homicide of a younger Black man in Chicago.
