The Masthead
The editorial structure the relaunched Pulse Chronicles is being built around — ten voices across four bureaus, in the tradition Richard E. Spoon set in Atlanta in 1978. Some roles are filled, others are being onboarded.
We’d rather show you the newsroom we’re building than pretend it’s already finished. Read the transparency page →
Margaret "Maggie" Whitfield
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.
Full bio & bylines →The Editors
Marcus Thorne
Executive Editor for News. Runs the daily newsroom and the Pulse desk.
Elena Vance
Tech Editor based in San Francisco. Covers AI infrastructure and the people building it.
David Okafor
Politics Editor in Washington. Two decades on the Hill.
Clara Montgomery
Business Editor in New York. Covers public markets and the private capital cycle.
Julian Rossi
Culture Editor in Los Angeles. Film, music, books, the rest.
Aria Sterling
Lifestyle Editor. Food, travel, the way we live now.
Hiroshi Tanaka
Reviews Editor. Tests the things you're thinking of buying.
Sasha Kaur
Shopping Editor. Curated guides and the occasional honest deal.
James Beauregard
Opinion Editor. Contributing to Pulse Chronicles since 2003.
Pulse Chronicles has been independently owned since 2017 by a small group of former Cox Media and CNN editors. The masthead has carried more than three hundred names since 1978.
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