I’m happy to announce that Alana Hope Levinson comes to work with us as a features editor, and Maxwell Zeff as a senior writer on AI.
Alana has had a storied career as a writer and editor of longform journalism; her work has appeared in New York, GQ, Vogue, Dwell, and Rolling Stone, among others, and she was instrumental in building strong editorial teams at Medium and MEL. For the past five years, she has run her own consultancy, launching print publications, podcasts and newsletters. Anyone who knows her work – or remembers MEL with the same fondness as I do – knows that Alana has a keen eye for digital culture, an entrepreneurial outlook and a bottomless well of ideas. She will be based in our LA office and starts on Monday, November 17.
Max will cover the artificial intelligence department for us. If you follow that space – and everyone here does – you’ve probably seen his byline. Few people have delivered more firsts at such a critical time for the industry. Max joins us from TechCrunch, where he consistently broke news about the startups and leaders driving the AI boom. Before that, he covered AI policy and content moderation for Gizmodo, and wrote some of Bloomberg’s first stories on the Silicon Valley Bank crisis. Max is ruthless, well-resourced, and has a deep understanding of both the technological and financial complexities of AI. He will be based in our San Francisco office and also starts on Monday.
Please join me in welcoming Max and Alana! And be sure to say hi when they start next week.
Brian
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