Would your news org make Amelia Lester a ME?
That's the question all young professional journalists should be asking themselves today. At 26, Lester's the new managing editor of The New Yorker. She succeeds a woman who's about 30. Remnick's magazine is already my favorite, as you know, and is now even more so. But along with Washingtonian naming 28-year-old Garrett Graff editor in chief, the news should make other young journalists question their own leaders.
If powers-that-be have trouble hiring or promoting management under 35, what's wrong with them? Have you subordinated yourself to legacy without realizing, and have you underestimated your potential to lead?
August 28th, 2009 at 1:17 AM
I suspect that it's a hoax – so I'm not feeling too bad about not being emperor of the world at 26… It's not a bad hoax – fact checker and all…
August 28th, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Wow. Just wow….
August 28th, 2009 at 7:27 AM
And two Harvard kids in the mix. What would Rory think?
August 28th, 2009 at 9:50 AM
To "Umm.." I see that it was reported in the Observer and confirmed by the New Yorker. Not a hoax, sorry.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Yeah, I can find a link to observer… for what that is worth. Please provide link to New Yorker's confirmation or press release or anything…