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Elijah Wolfson

Elijah Wolfson is an American writer and editor.[1] He is currently an editorial director at Time primarily covering health and science.[2] Previously, he was an editor at Quartz.[3][4][5] and before that served as senior editor at Newsweek,[6] where he covered science, health, technology and culture.[7][8][9] Wolfson has contributed to The Atlantic,[10][11] Al Jazeera America,[12][13] Vice,[14] and the Huffington Post,[15][16] and has appeared on MSNBC, BBC World News,[17] NPR and other media outlets.[18]

Wolfson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York. He studied rhetoric and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.[19][20][21] He is the son of Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson a psychotherapist, and of the scholar Elliot Wolfson. In 2013, he married the writer and painter Jas Johl, his former co-editor at The Cal Literature and Arts Magazine at Berkeley. The pair separated in 2018; they remain artistic collaborators.

In 2013, Wolfson was awarded a Langeloth Health Journalism Fellowship by the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice.[22] In 2015, he was awarded an International Reporting Project Fellowship,[23] and covered the Nepal Earthquake of 2015 from the ground.[24] In 2015, Wolfson was also awarded the Metcalf Institute Fellowship[25] and the 2015 Population Institute Global Media Award for his reporting on the relationship between climate change and access to family planning in developing countries.[26]

In 2016, his Newsweek cover story[27] investigated allegations of child abuse at Jewish Chabad school system of New York.[28][29] The story sparked protests.[30][31][32][33]

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  1. ^ "Elijah Wolfson - Aspen Ideas Festival". Aspen Ideas Festival. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  2. ^ "Time Announces Changes to Editorial Leadership Structure To Further Subscriptions and Digital Transformation". Time. May 24, 2021.
  3. ^ "Elijah Wolfson — Quartz". Quartz. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  4. ^ "From White House Intern to Quartz Photo Editor". Adweek. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  5. ^ "Movement at Quartz - Cision". Cision. July 19, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  6. ^ "Elijah Wolfson". Newsweek. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  7. ^ Elijah Wolfson (August 12, 2015). "Sex Cells" (PDF). Fnal.gov. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  8. ^ Barbara, Guzzetti (August 27, 2015). Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media. IGI Global. ISBN 9781466683112. Retrieved August 19, 2017 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ "Newsweek Announces Results of 2015 Green Rankings". Prnewswire.co.uk. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  10. ^ "Seeing red: The 'messy' meanings of how we see color". Minnpost.com. January 31, 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  11. ^ Wolfson, Elijah. "Elijah Wolfson". The Atlantic. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  12. ^ "Elijah Wolfson". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  13. ^ Essig, Todd. "Managing The Risks Of Taking Adderall To Enhance Work Performance". Forbes.com. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  14. ^ "Elijah Wolfson". Motherboard. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  15. ^ "Elijah Wolfson". The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  16. ^ Scrivner, L. (September 24, 2014). Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity. Springer. ISBN 9781137268747. Retrieved August 19, 2017 – via Google Books.
  17. ^ "BBC World Focus on Africa Newsweek Ebola". Vimeo. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  18. ^ Altman, Anna (October 22, 2014). "Retweet if You're Grieving". Op-Talk. The New York Times. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  19. ^ "UC Regents Approve System-Wide Tuition Hikes". Newsweek.com. November 20, 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  20. ^ "Quartz hires ideas editor, markets reporter in London, others - Talking Biz News". talkingbiznews.com. June 28, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  21. ^ Guillen, Michael (May 5, 2008). "The Evening Class: PFA: We Are Cinema — The Evening Class Interviews With Matt Losada, Elijah Wolfson and Hector Jimenez". Theveningclass.blogspot.com. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  22. ^ "Amy Solomon, Senior Advisor, Department of Justice; and Hon. Robert Russell, Presiding Judge at Drug Treatment Courts of Buffalo, N.Y. to speak on correctional health care and the Affordable Care Act at John Jay College – CUNY Newswire – CUNY". Cuny.edu. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  23. ^ "Wolfson, Elijah — International Reporting Project". internationalreportingproject.org. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  24. ^ "The poorest Nepalis suffer the most after the 2015 earthquake devastation". Newsweek. April 21, 2016. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  25. ^ "Ten Journalists Awarded Metcalf Institute Fellowship". metcalfinstitute.org. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  26. ^ "The Population Institute". Populationinstitute.org. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  27. ^ "For decades, child abuse was allegedly covered up in Brooklyn's Hasidic community". Newsweek. March 3, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  28. ^ "Investigating Abuse Allegations in the Chabad School System". Wnyc.org. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  29. ^ "Investigating Abuse Allegations in the Chabad School System". Survivorsforjustice.org. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  30. ^ "Newsweek exposé on alleged Hasidic child abuse sparks Brooklyn protest". Newsweek. March 18, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  31. ^ Lopin, Yerachmiel (March 18, 2016). "Why You Should Attend the Sunday Demonstration in Crown Heights against Abuse". Frumfollies.wordpress.com. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  32. ^ "Don't Burn Down the House". collive. March 13, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  33. ^ "Like the Catholic Church, the Hasidic Community Has a Child Abuse Problem". Complex. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
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