I’m the Managing Editor at The American Prospect. If you’re reading anything on our site or in our magazine, it has come across my desk at some point. I work behind the scenes to ensure our stories are fact-checked, copyedited and published in a timely manner.
At the Prospect, we are committed to nurturing new talent, through our
writing fellowship and internship programs.
Our alumni list speaks to these programs’ success: Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times;Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias who founded Vox;Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo; Adam Serwer (The Atlantic); Tara Zahra, a 2015 MacArthur award winner; Dana Goldstein and Nick Confessore (both, The New York Times); Kate Sheppard
(HuffPost); Nathalie Baptiste (Mother Jones); Richard Just (Washington Post Magazine);Annabelle Williams (The New York Times Fellow), Shera S. Avi-Yonah (Rhodes Scholarship); Alex Rouhandeh (Newsweek); and dozens more journalists currently at the top of the field.
Once on the job, our interns fact-check each issue, keep our social-media feeds lively, and report from across the country for the Prospect's website. One recent class of interns pursued deeply reported work with a focus on accountability: Amelia
Pollardconsidered how the far-right Prager U is infiltrating classrooms; Prem Thakkerhas looked into the protections workers need in the face of the pandemic; Jarod Facundo investigated North Carolina's botched COVID reentry program.
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Jonathan Guyer Managing Editor, The American Prospect
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