{ "publisher": "Pulse Chronicles", "generatedAt": "2026-06-30T16:00:00Z", "count": 10, "editors": [ { "id": "maggie-whitfield", "url": "/editors/maggie-whitfield", "name": "Margaret \"Maggie\" Whitfield", "role": "Editor-in-Chief", "beat": "Editorial leadership", "section": "chronicles", "bureau": "Atlanta", "joined": "2024-03-04", "email": "m.whitfield@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@MaggieWhitfield", "bio": "Editor-in-Chief of Pulse Chronicles. Twenty years reporting on American politics and the South.", "longBio": [ "Maggie Whitfield is the Editor-in-Chief of Pulse Chronicles. She joined in March 2024 to lead the title's digital relaunch and is the eighth editor in the magazine's history.", "Before Pulse Chronicles she spent twelve years at The Atlantic, where she edited the politics desk and ran the 2020 election team. She started her career at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2003, covering Georgia statehouse politics and the 2008 Democratic primary.", "She is the author of \"The Long Highway\" (Knopf, 2019), a narrative history of I-85 and the people who live along it, named one of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of the year.", "Maggie was born in Macon, Georgia, and lives in Decatur with her husband and two children." ], "priorOutlets": [ "The Atlantic", "Atlanta Journal-Constitution", "Oxford American" ], "education": "B.A. English, Emory University · M.S. Journalism, Columbia", "legacy": null }, { "id": "marcus-thorne", "url": "/editors/marcus-thorne", "name": "Marcus Thorne", "role": "Executive Editor, News", "beat": "U.S. and world news", "section": "news", "bureau": "Atlanta", "joined": "2024-04-15", "email": "m.thorne@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@marcusthorne", "bio": "Executive Editor for News. Runs the daily newsroom and the Pulse desk.", "longBio": [ "Marcus Thorne is the Executive Editor for News at Pulse Chronicles, where he runs the daily newsroom and oversees the live Pulse desk. He joined in April 2024 from Reuters, where he was Southeast bureau chief.", "He has reported from twenty-six countries, including four years based in Nairobi and two in Mexico City. His coverage of the 2017 Mosul offensive was a finalist for the Livingston Award.", "Marcus teaches a graduate seminar on breaking-news ethics at the University of Georgia's Grady College." ], "priorOutlets": [ "Reuters", "Bloomberg", "The Christian Science Monitor" ], "education": "B.A. International Relations, Tufts · M.S. Journalism, Northwestern", "legacy": null }, { "id": "elena-vance", "url": "/editors/elena-vance", "name": "Elena Vance", "role": "Tech Editor", "beat": "Artificial intelligence, infrastructure, semiconductors", "section": "tech", "bureau": "San Francisco", "joined": "2025-01-08", "email": "e.vance@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@elenavance", "bio": "Tech Editor based in San Francisco. Covers AI infrastructure and the people building it.", "longBio": [ "Elena Vance is the Tech Editor at Pulse Chronicles. She covers artificial intelligence, the data-center build-out, and the semiconductor supply chain from our San Francisco bureau.", "She joined in January 2025 from The Information, where she broke news on the OpenAI–Microsoft compute agreement and the 2024 Nvidia allocation disputes. Before that she was a senior writer at MIT Technology Review.", "Elena holds a master's in computer science from Stanford and worked briefly as an ML engineer at a Google research group before turning to journalism." ], "priorOutlets": [ "The Information", "MIT Technology Review", "Wired" ], "education": "B.S. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon · M.S. Computer Science, Stanford", "legacy": null }, { "id": "david-okafor", "url": "/editors/david-okafor", "name": "David Okafor", "role": "Politics Editor", "beat": "Congress, the White House, federal policy", "section": "politics", "bureau": "Washington, D.C.", "joined": "2024-05-20", "email": "d.okafor@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@dokafor", "bio": "Politics Editor in Washington. Two decades on the Hill.", "longBio": [ "David Okafor is the Politics Editor at Pulse Chronicles, running our Washington bureau. He has covered Capitol Hill for nearly twenty years across three administrations.", "Before joining in May 2024 he was a senior congressional correspondent at POLITICO and, earlier, a White House reporter at The Wall Street Journal. He was part of the WSJ team that won the 2018 Pulitzer for National Reporting for coverage of payments to women.", "David grew up in Houston and lives in the District with his wife, an immigration attorney." ], "priorOutlets": [ "POLITICO", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Houston Chronicle" ], "education": "B.A. Government, Georgetown · J.D., Yale Law School", "legacy": null }, { "id": "clara-montgomery", "url": "/editors/clara-montgomery", "name": "Clara Montgomery", "role": "Business Editor", "beat": "Markets, private capital, macro", "section": "business", "bureau": "New York", "joined": "2025-02-10", "email": "c.montgomery@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@claramontgomery", "bio": "Business Editor in New York. Covers public markets and the private capital cycle.", "longBio": [ "Clara Montgomery is the Business Editor at Pulse Chronicles. She covers public equities, private credit, and the macro forces shaping both from our New York bureau.", "She joined in February 2025 after eight years at the Financial Times, where she was U.S. capital markets correspondent. Earlier she was an equity research associate at Morgan Stanley.", "Clara writes the weekly column \"The Float,\" a Friday-afternoon read on the week in capital." ], "priorOutlets": [ "Financial Times", "Bloomberg Markets", "Barron's" ], "education": "B.A. Economics, Williams College · M.B.A., Wharton", "legacy": null }, { "id": "julian-rossi", "url": "/editors/julian-rossi", "name": "Julian Rossi", "role": "Culture Editor", "beat": "Film, music, books, television", "section": "culture", "bureau": "Los Angeles", "joined": "2025-03-01", "email": "j.rossi@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@julianrossi", "bio": "Culture Editor in Los Angeles. Film, music, books, the rest.", "longBio": [ "Julian Rossi is the Culture Editor at Pulse Chronicles. He oversees our coverage of film, music, books, and television from the Los Angeles bureau.", "Before joining in March 2025 he was a senior editor at Vulture and, earlier, a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he wrote profiles of Bong Joon-ho, Phoebe Bridgers, and Hilary Mantel.", "He hosts the monthly Pulse Chronicles culture podcast, \"The Marginalia.\"" ], "priorOutlets": [ "Vulture", "The New Yorker", "Pitchfork" ], "education": "B.A. Comparative Literature, Brown · M.F.A. Nonfiction, Iowa", "legacy": null }, { "id": "aria-sterling", "url": "/editors/aria-sterling", "name": "Aria Sterling", "role": "Lifestyle Editor", "beat": "Food, travel, health, the home", "section": "lifestyle", "bureau": "Atlanta", "joined": "2024-06-12", "email": "a.sterling@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@ariasterling", "bio": "Lifestyle Editor. Food, travel, the way we live now.", "longBio": [ "Aria Sterling is the Lifestyle Editor at Pulse Chronicles, covering food, travel, health, and the home from Atlanta. She joined in June 2024.", "She was previously deputy editor of Bon Appétit and a longtime contributor to Travel + Leisure and Garden & Gun. Her first book, \"The South in Six Tables\" (Clarkson Potter), is forthcoming in 2027.", "She lives in Cabbagetown and teaches a Saturday-morning pastry class out of her home." ], "priorOutlets": [ "Bon Appétit", "Travel + Leisure", "Garden & Gun" ], "education": "B.A. History, UNC Chapel Hill · Diploma, Institute of Culinary Education", "legacy": null }, { "id": "hiroshi-tanaka", "url": "/editors/hiroshi-tanaka", "name": "Hiroshi Tanaka", "role": "Reviews Editor", "beat": "Consumer technology, audio, photography, gear", "section": "reviews", "bureau": "Atlanta", "joined": "2025-04-22", "email": "h.tanaka@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@hiroshitanaka", "bio": "Reviews Editor. Tests the things you're thinking of buying.", "longBio": [ "Hiroshi Tanaka is the Reviews Editor at Pulse Chronicles, running the desk that tests consumer electronics, audio gear, cameras, and the occasional kitchen appliance.", "He joined in April 2025 from Wired, where he was a senior reviewer for nine years. Before journalism he was a hardware engineer at Sony in Tokyo.", "Hiroshi writes the weekly \"On the Bench\" column. His reviews follow a strict policy: we buy what we test, and we keep nothing." ], "priorOutlets": [ "Wired", "The Verge", "Stereophile" ], "education": "B.Eng. Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo", "legacy": null }, { "id": "sasha-kaur", "url": "/editors/sasha-kaur", "name": "Sasha Kaur", "role": "Shopping Editor", "beat": "Commerce, buying guides, deals", "section": "shopping", "bureau": "New York", "joined": "2026-01-06", "email": "s.kaur@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@sashakaur", "bio": "Shopping Editor. Curated guides and the occasional honest deal.", "longBio": [ "Sasha Kaur is the Shopping Editor at Pulse Chronicles, where she leads buying guides, gift coverage, and the deals desk.", "She joined in January 2026 from New York Magazine's The Strategist, where she was a senior writer for four years. Before that she was a buyer at Barneys New York.", "Sasha writes the Thursday \"Edited\" column, a short list of things she would actually buy." ], "priorOutlets": [ "The Strategist (New York Magazine)", "Refinery29", "Glamour" ], "education": "B.A. Art History, NYU", "legacy": null }, { "id": "james-beauregard", "url": "/editors/james-beauregard", "name": "James Beauregard", "role": "Opinion Editor", "beat": "Columns and editorials", "section": "opinion", "bureau": "Atlanta", "joined": "2024-04-01", "email": "j.beauregard@pulsechronicles.com", "twitter": "@jbeauregard", "bio": "Opinion Editor. Contributing to Pulse Chronicles since 2003.", "longBio": [ "James Beauregard is the Opinion Editor at Pulse Chronicles. He returned to the masthead in April 2024 with the digital relaunch, having first written for the magazine in 2003 under founding editor Richard E. Spoon.", "Between 2008 and 2024 he was a columnist for The Washington Post, where he wrote the Sunday \"Southern Letter\" for ten years. He is the author of three books, including \"Spoon at the Desk\" (LSU Press, 2021), a memoir of his years at the magazine's Edgewood Avenue offices.", "He lives in Atlanta and writes the weekly \"From the Desk\" column." ], "priorOutlets": [ "The Washington Post", "Pulse Chronicles (2003–2008)", "The Oxford American" ], "education": "B.A. English, University of the South (Sewanee) · M.A. English, Vanderbilt", "legacy": "Contributing writer to Pulse Chronicles, 2003–2008. Returned April 2024." } ] }