The last women promoted up the masthead at TNR as political writers were Ruth Shalit, who became an associate editor in September 1993 — 13 years ago — and Hanna Rosin, who was promoted to that post by 1995 — 11 years ago. The last women promoted to the role of senior editor as a political writer was Rosin, in May 1997. (Two women have also been promoted to senior editor as culture writers: Margaret Talbot and Ruth Franklin, both of whom first worked as editors. And in 1999, Chuck Lane hired Michelle Cottle. Now more than seven years ago, that was the last time a woman was hired as a senior editor/political writer at the magazine. )
HOME NEWS: With this issue, associate editor Hanna Rosin, whose fine reportage has ranged from the rise of pot to the fall of Newt, joins the august ranks of tnr’s senior editors, who, in their penthouse suite of Babylonian splendor high above the nation’s capital, dwell in an almost unimaginable state of power and privilege.
As Rosin noted in a about the mags editorship in a 1999 New York Observer story: “It has to be someone Marty respects, it has to be a guy, and he has to come from a good university.”
