Editing Slate (magazine) (section)

==Staff==
[[Michael Kinsley]] was ''Slate''{{'}}s founder and was its first editor, from 1996 until 2002. [[Jacob Weisberg]] was ''Slate''{{'}}s editor from 2002 until 2008. Weisberg's deputy editor [[David Plotz]] then became editor until July 2014,<ref name="slate2008">{{cite magazine |last= Plotz |first= David  |title= David Plotz Says Goodbye |url= http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/slate_fare/2014/07/slate_editor_david_plotz_julia_turner_succeeds_him_as_editor.html |magazine= Slate |date= July 14, 2014 |access-date= July 14, 2014}}</ref> when he was replaced by [[Julia Turner (journalist)|Julia Turner]].

Turner resigned as editor of ''Slate'' in October 2018.<ref name="turnerexit">
{{cite magazine
| url=https://slate.com/briefing/2018/10/julia-turner-slate-goodbye-to-editor-in-chief.html
| title=A Toast to Julia Turner
| magazine=Slate
| access-date=18 February 2019
}}</ref>

[[Jared Hohlt]] became editor-in-chief on April 1, 2019.<ref name="PeiserEditor">{{cite news |last1=Peiser |first1=Jaclyn |title=Slate Picks a Skilled Storyteller as Its New Top Editor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/business/media/slate-jared-hohlt.html?smid=tw-nytmedia&smtyp=cur |access-date=7 March 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 March 2019}}</ref> He stepped down in January 2022.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tracy |first1=Marc |title=Slate's Top Editor Leaves After a Three-Year Run |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/business/media/slate-editor-jared-hohlt.html |access-date=25 October 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=5 January 2022}}</ref>

Hillary Frey was named new editor in chief in May 2022.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fischer |first1=Sara |title=Slate taps Hillary Frey as new editor-in-chief |url=https://www.axios.com/2022/05/11/slate-hillary-frey-new-editor-in-chief |access-date=25 October 2022 |publisher=Axios |date=11 May 2022}}</ref>

===Key executives===

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* Hillary Frey (editor in chief) 
* Dan Check (chief executive officer) 
* Charlie Kammerer (chief revenue officer)
* Susan Matthews (executive editor)
* Jeffrey Bloomer (features director) 
* Forrest Wickman (culture editor)
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===Notable contributors and departments===
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* [[Anne Applebaum]] (Foreigners)
* [[John Dickerson (journalist)|John Dickerson]] (Politics)
* [[Simon Doonan]] (Fashion)
* [[Stefan Fatsis]] (Hang Up and Listen)
* [[Ashley Feinberg]] (Politics)
* [[Daniel Gross (journalist)|Daniel Gross]] (The Juice)
* [[David Greenberg (historian)|David Greenberg]] (History Lesson)
* [[Fred Kaplan (journalist)|Fred Kaplan]] (War Stories)
* [[Juliet Lapidos]] (Books / Explainer / Brow Beat)
* [[Dahlia Lithwick]] (Jurisprudence)
* [[Michael Moran (journalist)|Michael Moran]] (Reckoning / Foreign Policy)
* [[Timothy Noah]] (The Customer)
* [[Meghan O'Rourke]] (The Highbrow / Grieving)
* [[Daniel M. Lavery]] ([[Dear Prudence (advice column)|Dear Prudence]], since 2015<ref name=yoffe2015>{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/11/dear_prudence_emily_yoffe_says_goodbye.html|title=Don't Call It Closure|last=Yoffe|first=Emily|date=2015-11-12|newspaper=Slate|language=en-US|issn=1091-2339|access-date=2016-07-31}}</ref>)
* [[Mike Pesca]] (The Gist)
* [[Robert Pinsky]] (poetry editor)
* [[Phil Plait]] (Bad Astronomy / Science)
* [[Ron Rosenbaum]] (Spectator)
* [[William Saletan]] (Human Nature)
* [[Jack Shafer]] (Press Box)
* [[Eliot Spitzer]] (The Best Policy)
* [[Michael Steinberger|Mike Steinberger]] (Drink)
* [[Dana Stevens (critic)|Dana Stevens]] (Surfergirl through 2005/Movies)
* [[Seth Stevenson (journalist)|Seth Stevenson]] (Ad Report Card / Well-Traveled)
* [[James Surowiecki]] (The Book Club)
* [[Leon Neyfakh]] (Podcast)
* [[Tom Vanderbilt]] (Transport)
* [[Jacob Weisberg]] (The Big Idea)
* [[Tim Wu]] (Technology/Jurisprudence)
* [[Emily Yoffe]] ([[Dear Prudence (advice column)|Dear Prudence]] - until 2015 -, Human Guinea-pig)<ref name=yoffe2015/>
* [[Reihan Salam]] (Politics)
* [[Laura Miller (writer)|Laura Miller]] (Books and Culture)
* [[Carl Wilson (writer)|Carl Wilson]] (Music)
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===Past contributors===
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* [[Emily Bazelon]]
* [[Jamelle Bouie]]
* [[Pete Buttigieg]]
* [[Paul Boutin]]
* [[Ian Bremmer]]
* [[Phil Carter]]
* [[David Edelstein]]
* [[Franklin Foer]]
* [[Sasha Frere-Jones]]
* [[Atul Gawande]]
* [[Austan Goolsbee]]
* [[David Greenberg (historian)|David Greenberg]]
* [[Robert Lane Greene]]
* [[Virginia Heffernan]]
* [[David Helvarg]]
* [[Christopher Hitchens]]
* [[Jodi Kantor]]
* [[Mickey Kaus]]
* [[Patrick Radden Keefe]]
* [[Paul Krugman]]
* [[Steven Landsburg]]
* [[Will Leitch]]
* [[Farhad Manjoo]]
* [[Louis Menand]]
* [[Helaine Olen]] 
* [[David Plotz]]
* [[Daniel Radosh]]
* [[Bruce Reed (political operative)|Bruce Reed]]
* [[Jody Rosen]]
* [[Herbert Stein]]
* [[James Surowiecki]]
* [[Julia Turner (journalist)|Julia Turner]]
* [[Josh Voorhees]]
* [[Rob Walker (journalist)|Rob Walker]]
* [[David Weigel]]
* [[Robert Wright (journalist)|Robert Wright]]
* [[Matthew Yglesias]]
* [[Fareed Zakaria]]
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