Jacob Weisberg

Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, The Slate Group

Jacob Weisberg is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group, which publishes Slate and other websites. The Slate Group is a new division of The Washington Post Company tasked with developing a family of internet-based publications through start-ups and acquisitions. Weisberg attended Yale University and New College, Oxford. He has worked as a writer and editor at The New Republic and covered politics for New York Magazine.

Weisberg joined the internet magazine Slate in 1996, where he covered the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns as Chief Political Correspondent. He served as Editor of Slate from 2002 until 2008. He has also been a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington, as well as a weekly editorial-page columnist for the Financial Times. His books include The Bush Tragedy, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2008 and In an Uncertain World, (2003), the latter of which he co-wrote with former Treasury Secretary Robert E Rubin.