Betsy Reed | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Reed at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
| Born | 1968 (age 55–56) |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
Betsy Reed (born 1968) is an American journalist and editor. From January 2015, she was the editor-in-chief of The Intercept. In July 2022, she was named the editor-in-chief of Guardian US, succeeding John Mulholland, and assumed her new position in the autumn of that year.[1]
Reed earned a bachelor's degree in history and literature from Harvard University in 1990. She worked for sixteen years as editor at the weekly magazine The Nation, starting as senior editor in 1998, and promoted to executive editor in 2006. She left The Nation in late 2014 in order to join The Intercept as its editor-in-chief.[2][3][4]
She has also edited several books of investigative journalism, including Blackwater and Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill, and the essay collection Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare.[2]
- ^ Mullin, Benjamin (July 14, 2022). "Guardian names Betsy Reed, The Intercept's top editor, to run its U.S. newsroom". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ^ a b "Betsy Reed". LinkedIn. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
- ^ "Farewell, Betsy & Judy". The Nation. January 7, 2015.
- ^ Williams, Maxwell (March 15, 2016). "Betsy Reed: The editor putting big business and government under the microscope". Good. No. 36.