Slate News Creators & Guests

Alex Kirshner is a freelance writer, editor, and digital specialist.

León Krauze is an award-winning journalist, author, and news anchor. He hosts the podcast Trumpcast.

Felix Salmon is a financial journalist. He joined Axios as chief financial correspondent. He also wrote a Wired cover story on the Gaussian copula, and has hosted Slate's Money podcast.

Candice Lim is the is the co-host of ICYMI.

Cheyna Roth is a journalist and audio producer. Currently, she is a podcast producer for Slate and frequent host of its gender and feminism podcast "The Waves." She is also an adjunct professor of journalism and law at Aquinas College.Roth began her career as a prosecuting attorney. She left the practice of law to in 2016, earned her masters degree, and became a documentary filmmaker, podcaster, and freelance writer. She began her journalism career as Capitol reporter for the Michigan Public Radio Networka, and she hosted the podcast "MichMash."Roth's work has appeared in Broadly, Bustle, and on NPR. Her first book, "Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection," was published in 2020.Roth received her J.D. from Michigan State University College of Law and her M.A. in Journalism from Michigan State University.

Virginia Heffernan is a journalist and cultural critic. Heffernan is the co-host of Slate's Trumpcast podcast.

A.C. Valdez is an audio producer and editor. Currently, he is Senior Supervising Producer for the NPR show "1A."Previously, Valdez was a producer for The Atlantic, where he produced the "Radio Atlantic" podcast and edited the podcasts "How to Build a Happy Life" and "How to Start Over." Before that, he edited the Guns & America collaborative reporting project at WAMU. Before that, he produced for the Panoply podcast network, where he produced "About Race," and was founding producer of "The Ezra Klein Show" and "The Weeds." Before that, he produced the podcast "Chris Guillebeau’s Side Hustle School."

Benjamin Frisch is an audio and documentary producer and an artist. Currently, he is a Senior Producer at Slate.Frisch's first graphic novel, "The Fun Family," was published in 2016.

Ethan Oberman is a freelance audio producer.Previously, Oberman was a Senior Producer for the WNYC show "The Takeaway," where he produced much of the show’s movie and television coverage. He began his producing career as an intern with The Takeaway in 2016. Before that, he was an intern at WBAI in Brooklyn and a volunteer at WFMU.

Josh Dzieza is a technology and science reporter, currently working at The Verge.Dzieza's work has appeared in New York Magazine, Pacific Standard, and MIT Technology Review. His investigation into Foxconn’s failed Wisconsin project for The Verge received the Deadline Club Society of Professional Journalists award for reporting in digital media. His story about migratory beekeepers and the pollination industry for Pacific Standard received the 2016 Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers. His piece about sea level rise and the growing market for beach sand was a notable story in 2017’s Best American Science and Nature Writing.Dzieza received his B.A. in Philosophy from Pomona College.

Jim Newell is a senior politics writer at Slate.

Leah Nylen is a journalist who specializes in antitrust. Currently, she writes for Bloomberg News.Nylen has reported for POLITICO, MLex, Main Justice, and Congressional Quarterly.

Shelby Talcott is a media reporter at The Daily Caller.

Jason Koebler is Editor-in-Chief of Motherboard, based in New York, New York.

Peter Sokolowski is a lexicographer. Currently, he is an editor-at-large for Merriam-Webster and an adjunct professor at Amherst College.Sokolowski is also a freelance musician and has often appeared as a guest host on New England Public Radio's "Jazz Beat."Sokolowski received his M.A. in French from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Sally Herships is journalist.

Katelyn Burns is a reporter and writer. Currently, she writes for Vox and is the first ever openly trans Capitol Hill reporter. She covers politics, LGBTQ issues, and reproductive health policy.Previously, Burns was the federal policy reporter for Rewire.News, where she covered the U.S. Congress including legislation and federal policy issues. She continues to work as a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in them.us. The Washington Post, VICE, The Establishment, and Allure. She also wrote a series on toxic call-out culture in online activism for Everyday Feminism.

Dan Diamond reports in Politico that religious activists are on the rise inside HHS. He writes that several high-level positions have been filled by Christian conservatives who have spent months quietly planning how to weaken federal protections for abortion and transgender care, a strategy that's taking shape in a series of policy moves that took even their own staff by surprise.