Joan Walsh to join "The Nation" as National Affairs Correspondent-- will still appear on MSNBC
Joan Walsh to join The Nation as national affairs correspondent
By Hadas Gold
09/22/15 07:14 PM EDT
Joan Walsh is joining The Nation as national affairs correspondent, Executive Editor Richard Kim announced in a memo to staff Tuesday evening.
Walsh, a prominent liberal writer and currently editor at large at Salon, will join The Nation on Oct. 5. She'll continue her role as MSNBC contributor, Kim said.
"[Walsh] brings a deep knowledge of American political history and a passion for writing about elections, social movements, race, gender, class, media and many other subjects. She’ll be contributing several times a week online, as well as features and comments in the print magazine," Kim wrote in the memo.
Walsh joined Salon in 1998 and became its first full-time news editor. She became editor-in-chief in February 2005 and at the end of 2010 became editor at large.
“The stakes for the U.S. in 2016 are incredibly high, and I’m happy to be joining The Nation at this pivotal time,” Walsh said in a written statement. “I’ve loved my time at Salon, but now, as we face the Donald Trump farce and mull the meaning of Bernie Sanders’s surge, I’m thrilled to have the ballast of a magazine that’s spent 150 years chronicling American history, to help me take the long view. I look forward to a long collaboration with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Richard Kim, two of the smartest editors I know.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/09/joan-walsh-joins-nation-213949
*** UPDATE BELOW ***
Joan Walsh, who has edited the web magazine Salon since 2005, announced Monday that she is stepping down from her post to write a book. She will be replaced by Kerry Lauerman, another top editor at the site.
In a statement given to the New York Times, Walsh said that "this has been the best job I've ever had and it's hard to leave it, but I'm lucky to be able to hand the reins to Kerry." The Times reports that her book will be called "Indivisible," and will deal with "an indictment of the fear-based politics that splits Americans and holds the country back."
Sources at Salon told the Times that Lauerman has run "virtually every editorial department" at the site since he began there in 2000.
Walsh will continue to blog occasionally for the site, though it is not clear how her departure will affect her status as a frequent television commentator for MSNBC. She has had some notable run-ins with conservatives on the network, including one especially testy dust-up in 2009 with former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who told her he was "so glad you can never be my wife."
UPDATE: In a post on Salon this evening, Walsh says that she isn't completely leaving the site and that she will continue to appear on MSNBC.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/08/joan-walsh-out-as-salon-editor_n_780537.html