Vox Announces Elias Isquith Joins as Senior Editor for Policy, Politics, and Ideas

Vox editor-in-chief & publisher Swati Sharma and executive editor Elbert Ventura announced today that Elias Isquith will be joining the publication as a senior editor for policy, politics, and ideas.

“In our conversations with him, it was clear that Elias is passionately interested in the same questions that drive our work,” said Libby Nelson, Vox’s editorial director for policy, politics, and ideas. “What are the roots of our current political moment? What is happening today that will still matter in a week, a month, or a decade — and how do we convey those stakes? What is the best way to give readers the context, nuance, and understanding they need on complex topics?”

Isquith, who will start at Vox on September 22, is currently a producer and researcher on The Ezra Klein Show at the New York Times. There, he focused on politics (especially the ascendant American right) and foreign policy, producing episodes with Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vivek Ramaswamy, and more.

Before the Times, Elias was the editorial director of the NAACP Legal Education & Defense Fund; the editor in chief of Voices, the blog of the Open Society Foundations; an editor and writer at Salon; and the executive editor of the digital media startup Cafe.com.