Evan McMurry is becoming a member of the employees of The Atlantic later this month, the place he shall be a senior editor main viewers technique and overseeing the journal’s viewers group. He involves The Atlantic from ABC Information, the place he ran social technique throughout the community’s accounts, and has beforehand labored as a political blogger and an editor.

McMurry will information The Atlantic’s viewers and social technique underneath the management of managing editor Bhumika Tharoor, working to carry The Atlantic’s journalism to the biggest attainable viewers throughout all current and future platforms. McMurry will coordinate intently with Dan Fallon, the director of insights, and Shan Wang, the director of programming, on the indispensable work of main every day viewers protection; understanding and deepening The Atlantic’s relationships with its tens of hundreds of thousands of readers and listeners; and increasing social presence to repeatedly develop audiences and subscribers to The Atlantic.

In a observe to employees, Tharoor wrote that “collectively, Evan, Dan, and Shan carry a deep understanding of The Atlantic’s mission and objective, inventive and incisive editorial judgment, and eager information insights.”

Throughout McMurry’s time at ABC Information, he oversaw social technique for accounts with greater than 50 million mixed followers, and led the social protection for unique interviews and historic occasions, starting from the battle in Ukraine to the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. He additionally managed rollouts for main Hulu releases and oversaw social distribution of ABC Information Dwell, maximizing publicity and placement for the livestreaming channel.

The Atlantic lately introduced each Xochitl Gonzalez and Yair Rosenberg as employees writers, and Eleanor Barkhorn as a senior editor on the politics, international, and concepts group. Rosenberg continues to write down the Deep Shtetl publication, along with masking the intersection of politics, tradition, and faith, whereas Gonzalez’s protection and Brooklyn, In all places publication replicate on the various meanings of gentrification and what we stand to lose in our relentless pursuit of the American dream.