Elijah Wolfson Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elijah Wolfson - Aspen Ideas Festival. Aspen Ideas Festival. 19 August 2017.
  2. Time Announces Changes to Editorial Leadership Structure To Further Subscriptions and Digital Transformation . . May 24, 2021.
  3. Web site: Elijah Wolfson — Quartz. 2017-04-17. Quartz. en-US.
  4. Web site: From White House Intern to Quartz Photo Editor. 19 August 2017. Adweek.
  5. Web site: 19 July 2016. Movement at Quartz - Cision. 19 August 2017. Cision.
  6. News: Elijah Wolfson. en. Newsweek. 2017-04-17.
  7. Web site: Elijah Wolfson. August 12, 2015. Sex Cells. 2017-08-19. Fnal.gov.
  8. Book: Barbara, Guzzetti. 27 August 2015. Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media. 19 August 2017. IGI Global. 9781466683112. Google Books.
  9. Web site: Newsweek Announces Results of 2015 Green Rankings. 19 August 2017. Prnewswire.co.uk.
  10. Web site: Seeing red: The 'messy' meanings of how we see color. 19 August 2017. Minnpost.com. January 31, 2014 .
  11. Web site: Wolfson. Elijah. Elijah Wolfson. 2017-04-17. The Atlantic. en-US.
  12. Web site: Elijah Wolfson. 2017-04-17. america.aljazeera.com.
  13. Web site: Essig. Todd. Managing The Risks Of Taking Adderall To Enhance Work Performance. 19 August 2017. Forbes.com.
  14. Web site: Elijah Wolfson. 2017-04-17. Motherboard. en.
  15. Web site: Elijah Wolfson . 2017-04-17. The Huffington Post.
  16. Book: Scrivner, L.. 24 September 2014. Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity. 19 August 2017. Springer. 9781137268747. Google Books.
  17. Web site: BBC World Focus on Africa Newsweek Ebola. 2017-04-17. Vimeo.
  18. News: Altman. Anna. Retweet if You're Grieving. Op-Talk. . October 22, 2014 . 2017-04-17.
  19. Web site: UC Regents Approve System-Wide Tuition Hikes. 20 November 2014. Newsweek.com. 19 August 2017.
  20. Web site: Quartz hires ideas editor, markets reporter in London, others - Talking Biz News. talkingbiznews.com. June 28, 2016 . 19 August 2017.
  21. Web site: The Evening Class: PFA: We Are Cinema — The Evening Class Interviews With Matt Losada, Elijah Wolfson and Hector Jimenez. Michael. Guillen. 5 May 2008. Theveningclass.blogspot.com. 19 August 2017.
  22. Web site: 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. en-US. 2017-04-17.
  23. Web site: Wolfson, Elijah — International Reporting Project. internationalreportingproject.org. en. 2017-04-17.
  24. Web site: The poorest Nepalis suffer the most after the 2015 earthquake devastation. 2016-04-21. Newsweek. 2017-04-17.
  25. Web site: Ten Journalists Awarded Metcalf Institute Fellowship. metcalfinstitute.org. 19 August 2017.
  26. Web site: The Population Institute. Populationinstitute.org. 2017-04-17.
  27. Web site: For decades, child abuse was allegedly covered up in Brooklyn's Hasidic community. 3 March 2016. Newsweek. 19 August 2017.
  28. Web site: Investigating Abuse Allegations in the Chabad School System. Wnyc.org. 19 August 2017.
  29. Web site: Investigating Abuse Allegations in the Chabad School System. Survivorsforjustice.org. 19 August 2017.
  30. Web site: Newsweek exposé on alleged Hasidic child abuse sparks Brooklyn protest. 18 March 2016. Newsweek. 19 August 2017.
  31. Web site: Why You Should Attend the Sunday Demonstration in Crown Heights against Abuse. Yerachmiel. Lopin. 18 March 2016. Frumfollies.wordpress.com. 19 August 2017.
  32. Web site: Don't Burn Down the House. collive. March 13, 2016 . 19 August 2017.
  33. Web site: Like the Catholic Church, the Hasidic Community Has a Child Abuse Problem. Complex. 19 August 2017.

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