D.D. Guttenplan, Nation editor from 2019 to 2025, returns to his reporting roots as particular correspondent and host of a brand new Nation podcast.
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New York, NY—The Nation, America’s main supply of progressive politics and tradition, right this moment introduced right this moment that Nation editor Dd wellplann will change into the journal’s new particular correspondent, efficient August 1, after he places the journal’s a hundred and sixtieth anniversary particular challenge to press. Editorial director and writer Katrina vanden Heuvel, who was The Nation’s editor from 1995 to 2019, will return as editor and can stay writer.
As particular correspondent, Guttenplan will return to his political reporting roots, contributing common options to the print and on-line editions of The Nation. Constructing on the success of his restricted collection election podcast, See How They Run, Guttenplan will even proceed contributing to The Nation’s audio programming by internet hosting a brand new interview collection this April.
In his tenure as editor—the journal’s sixteenth in its 160-year historical past—Guttenplan forged his eye towards the journal’s future: bringing on participating new voices, reimagining the print version as an expanded month-to-month, relaunching TheNation.com, and directing monumental progress in our model extensions and podcasts. The Nation has gained a double-digit proportion of subscribers since Trump’s election, 14 p.c yr over yr, and the variety of particular person donors have elevated by 42 p.c.
Vanden Heuvel returns to The Nation with a renewed mission to confront the Trump administration head-on, by way of robust and deep reporting, countering and combating the rising risk of oligarchy. In a local weather the place publications are folding, contracting, and pandering to Trump, The Nation is steadfast in its dedication to talk fact to energy, defend free speech in opposition to censorship, and defend and promote peace, justice, and small-d democratic beliefs. As vanden Heuvel wrote when Trump first got here to energy in 2016, “The Nation’s work will proceed—because it has in good, not-so-good, and dangerous instances—to supply different visions and concepts, to deepen our journalistic mission of truth-telling and deep reporting.”
“In these instances, when an excessive amount of of our media is on bended knee, I consider The Nation’s position as an unbiased drive is an exceptionally highly effective one,” mentioned vanden Heuvel. “We’ve a mandate—as we did in 1865, at our founding—to rebuild, revive, and reclaim democracy. The Nation has been and can stay an important supply for the good debates and fateful struggles that now confront our nation—and our world.”
“The previous six years enhancing The Nation has been one of many nice adventures of my life,” mentioned Guttenplan. “I’ll all the time be grateful to Katrina for giving me this chance, to Victor Navasky for urging me to take it, and to our employees and contributors and donors for his or her arduous work, good writing, and steadfast assist. I’m immensely pleased with the work we’ve achieved collectively, from protecting Black Lives Matter and Covid to our persevering with—and sadly, nonetheless unmatched within the mainstream press—protection of the Palestinian wrestle to our position in serving to to discovered Masking Local weather Now to our deep reporting on abortion entry. And although the journal enterprise, and journalism as a complete, have been by way of actually determined instances, The Nation has not solely endured however tailored and thrived. I’m very pleased with that, too.”
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“Don Guttenplan has been an vital Nation editor, bringing new vitality, concepts, and daring management to the journal,” added vanden Heuvel. “He has proven a deep dedication to cultivating a brand new era of voices, and his eager understanding of the historic and demanding position of unbiased journalism in our society has been invaluable. His tenure leaves the journal able to maneuver ahead with power.”
In his time main The Nation, Guttenplan added gifted writers, spirited columnists, and incisive reporters to the masthead, voices indispensable to this disaster political second in our nation. These embrace justice correspondent Elie Mystalnationwide affairs correspondent Jeet Heer, DC bureau chief Chris Lehmann (former editor of The New Republic and The Baffler), and strikes correspondent Jane McAlevey. In 2021, The Nation turned the primary nationwide publication to rent a Palestine correspondent, Mohammed El-Kurd.
Throughout Guttenplan’s tenure, The Nation acquired award recognition from numerous organizations, together with the Park Heart for Unbiased Media, the Society of Environmental Journalists, Masking Local weather Now, the Nationwide Girls’s Political Caucus, the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists, the Livingston Awards for Younger Journalists, the Bernhardt Labor Journalism Awards, the Human Rights Press Award, the Society of Skilled Journalists, the American Bar Affiliation, the Training Writers Affiliation, and Newhouse College of Journalism’s Mirror Awards for Excellence in Media Business Reporting. For the primary time in its historical past, The Nation was additionally named a finalist for the Nationwide Journal Awards for Common Excellence, Literature, Science and Politics, lengthy acknowledged as one of many publishing trade’s highest honors.
Guttenplan and vanden Heuvel can be found for remark from New York Metropolis. For interview requests or additional data, please see contact data above.
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