Elijah Wolfson

Elijah Wolfson is an American writer and editor.^[1] He is currently an editorial director at Time primarily covering health and science.^[2] Previously, he was an editor at Quartz.^[3][4][5] and before that served as senior editor at Newsweek,^[6] where he covered science, health, technology and culture.^[7][8][9] Wolfson has contributed to The Atlantic,^[10][11] Al Jazeera America,^[12][13] Vice,^[14] and the Huffington Post,^[15][16] and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News,^[17] NPR and other media outlets.^[18]

Wolfson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York. He studied rhetoric and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.^[19][20][21] He is the son of Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson a psychotherapist, and of the scholar Elliot Wolfson. In 2013, he married the writer and painter Jas Johl, his former co-editor at The Cal Literature and Arts Magazine at Berkeley. The pair separated in 2018; they remain artistic collaborators.

In 2013, Wolfson was awarded a Langeloth Health Journalism Fellowship by the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice.^[22] In 2015, he was awarded an International Reporting Project Fellowship,^[23] and covered the Nepal Earthquake of 2015 from the ground.^[24] In 2015, Wolfson was also awarded the Metcalf Institute Fellowship^[25] and the 2015 Population Institute Global Media Award for his reporting on the relationship between climate change and access to family planning in developing countries.^[26]

In 2016, his Newsweek cover story^[27] investigated allegations of child abuse at Jewish Chabad school system of New York.^[28][29] The story sparked protests.^{[30][31][32][33]}