New Republic Editor Jamil Smith Asks For Time Before Critics Declare Magazine Dead

Hired in the wake of The New Republic’s massive staff exodus late last year, the magazine’s new senior editor Jamil Smith joined HuffPost Live on Friday to discuss why readers should give the publication a chance to reinvent itself.

Smith said the story was “received very well” at TNR, and seen by the staff as the “beginning and not necessarily the end of the conversation about race” in the newsroom.

The Huffington Post