Noah Shachtman

Noah Shachtman
Shachtman in 2022
EducationGeorgetown University (BA)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
OccupationJournalist
TitleEditor-in-chief of Rolling Stone
RelativesLee Guber (grandfather)
AwardsOnline Journalism Awards for Beat Reporting (2007) and National Magazine Award for Reporting, Digital Media (2012) and Best Digital Design (2023)

Noah Shachtman is an American journalist and musician. He was the editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone.[1] From 2018 to 2021, he served as the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast.[2] He previously was the executive editor of the site.[3] A former non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, he also worked as executive editor for News at Foreign Policy and as a contributing editor at Wired.[4][5]

Early life and education

Born to a Jewish family, Shachtman graduated from Georgetown University and attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[6] His grandfather was theater impresario Lee Guber, and his father and stepmother worked at CBS News.[7]

Career

In 2003, Shachtman founded Defensetech.org. The site was acquired by Military.com the following year.[8] In 2006, he became a contributing editor at Wired. He co-founded the Danger Room blog, which won the 2007 Online Journalism Award for Beat Reporting[9] and the 2012 National Magazine Award for reporting in digital media.

Shachtman left Wired to join Foreign Policy in 2013. He joined The Daily Beast as its new executive editor in 2014.[10] He helped turned the site into "a journalistic scoop factory", in the words of the Poynter Institute.[11]

When John Avlon left The Daily Beast in May 2018, Shachtman was promoted to editor-in-chief.[12] The Hollywood Reporter named Shachtman one of the 35 most powerful people in New York media in 2019.[13]

Shachtman has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Slate, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.[14][15] He has also appeared as a guest on CNN,[16] NPR,[17] MSNBC, and Frontline.[18][19] Shachtman has spoken before audiences at West Point, the Army Command and General Staff College,[20] the Aspen Security Forum,[21] the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,[22] Harvard Law School,[23] Yale Law School,[24] National Defense University and the Center for a New American Security Conference.[25]

Shachtman has reported from Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Russia, the Pentagon, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.[26] Prior to his career in journalism, Shachtman was a campaign staffer in the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign, a book editor, and plays bass guitar.[27]

Rolling Stone

Shachtman was named editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone in July 2021.[28]

In October 2022, Rolling Stone broke the news that the FBI had raided the home of ABC News producer James Gordon Meek, but left out the detail that the raid was carried out because of child pornography, instead suggesting that "Meek appears to be on the wrong side of the national-security apparatus" and that the raid had been instigated by the government because of Meek's reporting on national security issues. It was later revealed that the article was originally to include the child pornography details, but Shachtman, who personally knows the accused Meek and is considered friendly with him, had personally intervened to remove the charges and rewrote the article to give it a different spin.[29]

In February 2024, Shachtman announced he would be leaving Rolling Stone.[30]

References

  1. ^ Tracy, Marc (2021-07-15). "'Faster, Harder, Louder': Rolling Stone Hires Daily Beast Editor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  2. ^ Wemple, Erik (2017). "Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him". The Washington Post.
  3. ^ "After Tina Brown's Exit, Daily Beast Brings In Editing Help". The New York Times. 2014-01-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  4. ^ Rothstein, Betsy. "Foreign Policy Makes Big Announcements". FishbowlDC. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Noah Shachtman". The Brookings Institution.
  6. ^ Johnson, Eric (November 13, 2018). "Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?". Vox.
  7. ^ Wemple, Eric (24 May 2018). "Opinion: Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him". Washington Post. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  8. ^ Barnako, Frank. "Defense blog acquired by Military.com". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  9. ^ "2007 Online Journalism Awards Winners". Online Journalism Awards. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  10. ^ Somaiya, Ravi (2014-01-16). "After Tina Brown's Exit, Daily Beast Brings In Editing Help". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  11. ^ "From the Coney Island Sideshow to a journalistic 'scoop factory'". Poynter. 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  12. ^ Wemple, Eric (May 24, 2018). "Opinion | Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him". The Washington Post.
  13. ^ Guthrie, Alison Brower and Marisa, ed. (2019-04-11). "The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media 2019". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  14. ^ Shachtman, Noah (31 January 2014). "Noah Shachtman". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  15. ^ "Noah Shachtman | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  16. ^ Shachtman on the 'merging' of Trump and Fox - CNN Video, 25 November 2018, retrieved 2021-07-05
  17. ^ "U.S. Military Searches For A Device To Stop IEDs". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  18. ^ "Trump signs veto. TRANSCRIPT: 03/15/2019, The Beat w. Ari Melber". MSNBC. 2019-03-15. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  19. ^ "Interviews - Noah Shachtman | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  20. ^ Army, U. S. (2018-11-08), English: Noah Shachtman, Editor in Chief, The Daily Beast, retrieved 2021-07-06
  21. ^ Institute, The Aspen. "The Aspen Security Forum Releases 2016 Agenda". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  22. ^ "Program Unveiled for the O'Reilly ETech Conference". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  23. ^ by (2011-03-01). "Cybersecurity: Law, Privacy, and Warfare in a Digital World". Harvard National Security Journal. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  24. ^ "Location Tracking and Biometrics Conference | Yale Journal of Law & Technology". yjolt.org. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  25. ^ CNAS 2013 Annual Conference: Bugs, Bytes and Bots, retrieved 2020-01-18
  26. ^ "Noah Shachtman". Brookings. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  27. ^ "Biography | Noah Shachtman". 2019-03-06. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  28. ^ Kelly, Keith J. (2021-07-15). "Rolling Stone names top Daily Beast staffer as new editor in chief". New York Post. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  29. ^ Folkenflick, David (2023-03-21). "The FBI raided a notable journalist's home. Rolling Stone didn't tell readers why". NPR National Public Radio. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  30. ^ Darcy, Oliver (2024-02-09). "Rolling Stone's editor-in-chief exits magazine after brief run over differences with top boss". CNN Business. Retrieved 2024-02-10.