Noah Shachtman

Noah Shachtman
Shachtman in 2022
EducationGeorgetown University (BA)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
OccupationJournalist
TitleEditor-in-chief of Rolling Stone
RelativesLee Guber (grandfather)
AwardsOnline Journalism Awards for Beat Reporting (2007) and National Magazine Award for Reporting, Digital Media (2012) and Best Digital Design (2023)

Noah Shachtman (born September 15, 1977) is an American journalist. From 2021 to 2024, he was the editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone.[1] From 2018 to 2021, he served as the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast.[2] He previously was the executive editor of the site.[3] A former non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, he also worked as executive editor for News at Foreign Policy and as a contributing editor at Wired.[4][5]

Early life and education

Born to a Jewish family, Shachtman graduated from Georgetown University and attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[6] His grandfather was theater impresario Lee Guber, and his father and stepmother worked at CBS News.[7]

Career

Shachtman served as a staffer on the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign. He played bass in a number of ska and reggae bands,playing in venues such as CBGB and the 9:30 Club. He started working in journalism as a way to make money between gigs.[8][9]

In 2003, Shachtman founded Defensetech.org. The site was acquired by Military.com the following year.[10] In 2006, he became a contributing editor at Wired. He co-founded the Danger Room blog, focused on national security, which won the 2007 Online Journalism Award for Beat Reporting[11] and the 2012 National Magazine Award for reporting in digital media. Shachtman joined The Brookings Institution in 2013 as a non-resident fellow in its Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in 2013.[12]

Shachtman left Wired to join Foreign Policy in 2013. He joined The Daily Beast as its new executive editor in 2014.[13] Noted journalism school and research organization, the Poynter Institute, would later say Shachtman helped turned the Daily Beast into "a journalistic scoop factory."[14]

When John Avlon left The Daily Beast in May 2018, Shachtman was promoted to editor-in-chief.[15] The Hollywood Reporter named Shachtman one of the 35 most powerful people in New York media in 2019.[16]

Shachtman has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Slate, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.[17][18] He has also appeared as a guest on CNN,[19] NPR,[20] MSNBC, and Frontline.[21][22] Shachtman has spoken before audiences at West Point, the Army Command and General Staff College,[23] the Aspen Security Forum,[24] the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,[25] Harvard Law School,[26] Yale Law School,[27] National Defense University and the Center for a New American Security Conference.[28]

Shachtman has reported from Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Russia, the Pentagon, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.[29] Prior to his career in journalism, Shachtman was a campaign staffer in the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign, a book editor, and plays bass guitar.[30]

Rolling Stone

Shachtman was named editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone in July 2021.[31]

In October 2022, Rolling Stone broke the news that the FBI had raided the home of ABC News producer James Gordon Meek, but left out the detail that the raid was carried out because of child pornography, instead suggesting that "Meek appears to be on the wrong side of the national-security apparatus" and that the raid had been instigated by the government because of Meek's reporting on national security issues. It was later revealed that the article was originally to include the child pornography details, but Shachtman, who personally knows the accused Meek and is considered friendly with him, had personally intervened to remove the charges and rewrote the article to give it a different spin.[32]

In February 2024, Shachtman announced he would be stepping down as Rolling Stone's editor-in-chief.[33] During his tenure, the magazine won a National Magazine Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award.

References

  1. ^ Tracy, Marc (July 15, 2021). "'Faster, Harder, Louder': Rolling Stone Hires Daily Beast Editor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
  2. ^ Wemple, Erik (2017). "Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him". The Washington Post.
  3. ^ "After Tina Brown's Exit, Daily Beast Brings In Editing Help". The New York Times. January 16, 2014. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  4. ^ Rothstein, Betsy. "Foreign Policy Makes Big Announcements". FishbowlDC. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  5. ^ "Noah Shachtman". The Brookings Institution.
  6. ^ Johnson, Eric (November 13, 2018). "Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?". Vox.
  7. ^ Wemple, Eric (May 24, 2018). "Opinion: Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him". Washington Post. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
  8. ^ Tracy, Marc (July 15, 2021). "'Faster, Harder, Louder': Rolling Stone Hires Daily Beast Editor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 30, 2026.
  9. ^ Klein, Charlotte (September 30, 2022). ""It's Gotta Grow to Stay Alive": Inside Noah Shachtman's Raucous Reinvention of 'Rolling Stone'". Vanity Fair. Retrieved January 30, 2026.
  10. ^ Barnako, Frank. "Defense blog acquired by Military.com". MarketWatch. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  11. ^ "2007 Online Journalism Awards Winners". Online Journalism Awards. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  12. ^ "Brookings Launches the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence (21CSI)". Brookings. Retrieved January 30, 2026.
  13. ^ Somaiya, Ravi (January 16, 2014). "After Tina Brown's Exit, Daily Beast Brings In Editing Help". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
  14. ^ "From the Coney Island Sideshow to a journalistic 'scoop factory'". Poynter. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  15. ^ Wemple, Eric (May 24, 2018). "Opinion | Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him". The Washington Post.
  16. ^ Guthrie, Alison Brower and Marisa, ed. (April 11, 2019). "The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media 2019". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
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  18. ^ "Noah Shachtman | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
  19. ^ Shachtman on the 'merging' of Trump and Fox - CNN Video, November 25, 2018, retrieved July 5, 2021
  20. ^ "U.S. Military Searches For A Device To Stop IEDs". NPR.org. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  21. ^ "Trump signs veto. TRANSCRIPT: 03/15/2019, The Beat w. Ari Melber". MSNBC. March 15, 2019. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
  22. ^ "Interviews - Noah Shachtman | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE". www.pbs.org. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
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  24. ^ Institute, The Aspen. "The Aspen Security Forum Releases 2016 Agenda". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  25. ^ "Program Unveiled for the O'Reilly ETech Conference". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  26. ^ by (March 1, 2011). "Cybersecurity: Law, Privacy, and Warfare in a Digital World". Harvard National Security Journal. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  27. ^ "Location Tracking and Biometrics Conference | Yale Journal of Law & Technology". yjolt.org. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  28. ^ CNAS 2013 Annual Conference: Bugs, Bytes and Bots, retrieved January 18, 2020
  29. ^ "Noah Shachtman". Brookings. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
  30. ^ "Biography | Noah Shachtman". March 6, 2019. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  31. ^ Kelly, Keith J. (July 15, 2021). "Rolling Stone names top Daily Beast staffer as new editor in chief". New York Post. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
  32. ^ Folkenflick, David (March 21, 2023). "The FBI raided a notable journalist's home. Rolling Stone didn't tell readers why". NPR National Public Radio. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  33. ^ Darcy, Oliver (February 9, 2024). "Rolling Stone's editor-in-chief exits magazine after brief run over differences with top boss". CNN Business. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
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