Rosin previously hosted NPR’s Invisibilia and led New York journal’s audio unit
The Atlantic has named a brand new host for its flagship podcast, Radio Atlantic: Hanna Rosin, a former Atlantic author who was a co-host of NPR’s Invisibilia and most lately the editorial director for audio at New York journal. Hanna will deliver her formidable expertise and deep curiosity to Radio Atlantic, which is able to relaunch within the spring.
Radio Atlantic will resume a weekly cadence in late Might. The present may have the identical ambition because the journal, which is to floor essentially the most thrilling and related concepts of the second, whether or not by way of well timed conversations or audio-rich reported tales. Just like the journal, it’ll function a variety of views and journalism that makes you see the world in another way.
“An excellent episode is one that provides you new perception, or a brand new mind-set a couple of crucial situation at precisely the second while you, the listener, are in search of that steering,” says Hanna.
As a author at The Atlantic within the early 2010s, Hanna wrote a sequence of memorable, high-impact cowl and have tales probing how we exist on this planet: about the top of males, overprotective dad and mom, and fraying teen psychological well being. She has because the summer time of 2020 been the editorial director for New York journal’s audio unit, the place she launched the reveals Cowl Story, Into It, and On With Kara Swisher, and oversaw the expansion of Pivot. Whereas at Slate, Hanna based the part DoubleX and hosted the Waves podcast.
“Hanna is without doubt one of the most gifted journalists I’ve ever met,” says Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief. “She was an immensely profitable function author for us, and so it was distressing when she left The Atlantic. However, after all, she succeeded wildly in podcasting, and it’s an incredible pleasure to welcome her again residence to The Atlantic, the place she is going to contribute tremendously not solely to our formidable audio technique, however to all of our journalism.”
The Atlantic is increasing its audio choices in 2023 underneath the management of government producer Claudine Ebeid, alongside Goldberg, government editor Adrienne LaFrance, and managing editor Andrea Valdez. Earlier this month, The Atlantic launched the narrative podcast Holy Week in regards to the uprisings that adopted the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and the way these seven days––one of the vital fiery, disruptive, and contentious weeks in American historical past––diverted the course of a social revolution. All eight episodes of Holy Week can be found now.
Different current editorial hires embody Stephanie McCrummen as a workers author, who began at The Atlantic after almost twenty years at The Washington Publish, and Laura Secor as a senior editor to direct protection of world points and overseas coverage. Laura was a options editor for The Wall Avenue Journal’s Weekend Assessment, and beforehand a deputy editor at Overseas Affairs.
