It’s my pleasure to announce that this site has a new editor. Her name is Melissa Lafsky. In addition to being a friend, she’s a very talented writer who I think will do wonderful things here. She’s coming over from Discover Magazine, where she was the deputy web editor. Prior to that, she was the editor of the Freakonomics blog at the New York Times.
After launching the site earlier this year and editing it for the past nine months, I’m pursuing some other opportunities (specifically, I took a job as an editor at the news magazine The Week). But I’m going to remain very involved with this site and will continue to write under my new title, editor-at-large.
I’m confident that in the months and years ahead the Infrastructurist can be a meaningful voice in America’s conversation about re-imagining our infrastructure for the 21st century. It’s a terribly important conversation, of course. As Zipcar founder Robin Chase put it, “Infrastructure is destiny.” The truth of this seems rather stark these days.
As always, you can reach me at jr@infrastructurist.com. Melissa can be reached at melissa@infrastructurist.com.
If you’re curious to hear a bit more about–and from–your new editor Melissa, give a listen to the interview she did last week with MediaBistro’s Morning Media Menu. She talks about the Infrastructurist, high speed rail, and 2012, among other topics.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Wow, the editor from my favorite blog is going to my favorite magazine? Lucky me. Best of luck to you.
November 24th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
That’s odd I read The Week also. Try to get them to bring back the old style!!!! It was much better!!!!
November 27th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Here’s hoping Lafsky’s editing here will be better than whatever it was that produced Freakonomics’ climate change denial posts.