Dana Canedy, the previous writer of Simon & Schuster, was named managing editor of Guardian U.S. on Tuesday, the newest govt to hitch the American version of the British newspaper firm.
Ms. Canedy, 57, will likely be one of many highest-ranking executives within the Guardian U.S. newsroom, reporting to the editor in chief, Betsy Reed. Ms. Reed is herself a comparatively latest rent, having joined the publication in September.
Ms. Canedy is a seasoned govt who has held senior positions throughout the media trade. Earlier than becoming a member of Simon & Schuster in 2020, she was the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, steering the choice course of for journalism’s most prestigious awards for 3 years.
The appointment represents a return to every day journalism for Ms. Canedy, who was a reporter and senior editor at The New York Instances for greater than 20 years. Ms. Canedy was a part of a staff that gained a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for the collection “How Race Is Lived in America,” and in 2008 she printed a memoir, “A Journal for Jordan,” which turned a film directed by Denzel Washington.
Ms. Canedy left Simon & Schuster final yr to put in writing a sequel to her memoir. She was the primary Black lady to function the writer of Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint, a growth that was welcomed within the overwhelmingly white higher ranks of the publishing trade.
Throughout her time at Simon & Schuster, Ms. Canedy gained reward for buying books by outstanding Black journalists and students, together with the journalist and editor Errin Haines and the Washington Submit columnist Eugene Robinson, a fellow Pulitzer Prize winner. However a few of her choices drew criticism from her workers, lots of whom signed an open letter protesting her determination to publish an autobiography by former Vice President Mike Pence.
In an announcement on Tuesday, Ms. Canedy mentioned she was “honored” to hitch Guardian U.S., including that she has “lengthy admired the Guardian’s values.” In a separate assertion, Ms. Reed lauded Ms. Canedy’s “wealth of expertise and data.”
Ms. Canedy will likely be answerable for the day-to-day operations of the newsroom, advancing its editorial ambitions and managing protection of main tales. She’s going to begin later this month.
