The New Republic named a new editor and announced that it was
moving back to Washington, its home city for most of its 107-year existence.
Michael Tomasky, who has edited the policy journal Democracy: A
Journal of Ideas since 2009 and writes a regular column for The Daily Beast,
will take over as The New Republic’s top editor. Tomasky, 60, will continue his
role at Democracy, a quarterly publication. He said joining The New Republic
would be “the crowning achievement of my career.”
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“This is such a critical moment, with a new administration
signaling a fresh era of American politics — but with clear and present threats
emanating from an opposition party that has basically become anti-democratic,”
he said in a statement. “There is much important work to do.”
He will start his new job on April 19, replacing Chris Lehmann,
who will become an editor at large for the magazine.
The New Republic, founded in 1914, went through years of tumult
after it was bought in 2012 by Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook. In 2014,
most of the staff quit after the top editor, Franklin Foer, departed. Hughes
also moved the magazine to New York from Washington, where it was based for
most of its existence.
In 2016, Hughes sold the magazine to Win McCormack, a publisher
and the co-founder of Mother Jones, as well as the founder and editor-in-chief
of the literary magazine Tin House. The New Republic said in a statement that
its business operations would remain in New York, while the majority of its editorial
staff would move to Washington.
“We are grateful to our outgoing editor Chris Lehmann, who was
able to restore stability to The New Republic after a decade of incessant
turmoil,” McCormack said. “He built an excellent staff and inspired them to
first-class work.”
Tomasky was the first US editor of The Guardian when it
expanded in America and has contributed to The New York Review of Books and The
New York Times.
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